#locked

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. ↗

— Jerry Cantrell

#during #experience #food #four #hell

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#else #get #going #locked #locked up

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances. ↗

— John Havlicek

#chances #go #got #had #hundreds

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it? ↗

— Michael Kors

#design #designers #enjoy #go #happy

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#country #cultural #cultural war #locked #our

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that. ↗

— Kate Millett

#could #crazy #even #i #locked

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#because #been #come #had #history

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#couple #either #even #eyes #kept

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force. ↗

— Gerd von Rundstedt

#another #areas #arrival #back #blocked

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#dreams #trust #dreams