#lock

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#adjustment #combination #does #door #each

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#i #locked #out #perhaps #thought

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#doors #people #smart #smart people #unlocked

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. ↗

— Orville Wright

#design #had #just #motor #power

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.' ↗

— Steven Wright

#down #front #got #grocery #guy

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine. ↗

— William Wyler

#five #hollywood #life #miserable #morning

Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#i #just #left #locker #locker room

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall. ↗

— Dick York

#block #breath #doing #god #had

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#greater #ignorant #learned #than

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#clock #die #ever #four #got