#locked

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ↗

— Robert Burns

#collar #gentleman #him #his #lettered

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them. ↗

— John le Carre

#because #been #books #decisions #else

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life. ↗

— James Ellroy

#clenched #down #general #i #life

If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it. ↗

— Trick Daddy

#daddy #dead #locked #locked up #mama

I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#fed #flat #happy #i #locked

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory. ↗

— Damon Hill

#already #australia #books #celebrated #century

I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.' ↗

— Joan Jett

#every #every night #everything #eyes #got

I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#fun #got #hours #i #imagine

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#disappeared #everything #extreme #figure #his

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#like #locked #locked up #safe #universe