Top 280 Locked Quotes

Those who misspent the government’s money, they should be arrested and locked up.
Jovenel Moise
When more land is locked up by the federal government, real people suffer, and opportunities for future prosperity are reduced.
Paul Gosar
I actually didn’t do any writing of music while I was locked up. I wrote a book, but I didn’t do any music.
Da Brat
Before marriage people want everyone to look at their girlfriends. But after marriage they want to keep their wives locked way.
Arbaaz Khan
The crime bill basically incentivized the prison system. There were quotas, mandatory minimums. You have to serve 85 percent of your time, so it is guaranteeing that bodies will always be locked up. And that went mostly towards minority communities and poor communities, where crime is more rampant.
Malcolm Jenkins
‘Wicked Nights’ is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace – heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace – and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.
Gena Showalter
As far as being locked into one certain thing, that's n

As far as being locked into one certain thing, that’s not what I want to do. I just want the opportunity to go off and do something else, whether it’s plays or musicals or whatever.
Dominic Sherwood
I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I’d get locked in on them.
Jeff Kinney
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
Russell Simmons
You can see when people’s locked in and they are ready mentally, and when they are not.
Serge Ibaka
I was 17 and out of school, living with my mom, starving, not eating, getting locked up, no focus, no guidance. When you ain’t got no guidance, you can’t do too much. But then I had my first son and started working. I got the right people around me.
Lil Durk
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll
As an individual, I need space and can’t be locked in a house with strangers. I would do ‘Bigg Boss’ if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.
Karan Singh Grover
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn’t put it down – I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
Joan Didion
I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.
Anthony Hopkins
Ever since third grade – I never even noticed it until after the game – people were telling me how crazy my dad is. I think I’m so locked in when I’m playing on the floor, I only hear him maybe during timeouts or when we’re up 20 or 30 and I’m on the bench. But when I’m in the game, I don’t hear him.
Jahlil Okafor
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
I’ll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I’ll be doing albums during this time.
Erykah Badu
Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have – to be taken away from one’s family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
James Blunt
When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison, and I would be locked up with it in a castle Princess Toadstool style. Thinking there was no way out, I let it consume me.
AJ Lee
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
When I was locked up, I went through a big personal change with my attitude and spiritual, everything. I went through some major changes locked up.
Prodigy
This idea of, there’s a locked door; how do you open it? You don’t necessarily care what’s behind it; you’re just more excited about opening the lock… It’s not about finding the treasure; it’s more about defeating the puzzle.
Harper Reed
I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even at that point. It’s not really until you’re locked that you can call it quits.
Noah Hawley
A new setting is amazing cause it’s new for the team, and it’s new for our characters. It’s a breakaway from the normal deal. You get so tired, locked into a show for so many years. You get used to doing the same thing. A little shake-up and change is good.
Aldis Hodge
The outburst of sexual freedom in the ’60s was bound to happen because the ’50s were so oppressing. You had to live that way; women had to be like this – it was all locked into a false reality.
Christopher Lloyd
In January 2012, Caterpillar locked out union workers at a locomotive factory in Ontario after they rejected a pay cut of about 50 percent; the company shuttered the plant and moved production to Muncie, Ind., where workers accepted lower wages.
Mina Kimes
When I am on stage I am locked away in energy and in concentration. I hear and I think about nothing but the music and I can only relax when it is over.
Joe Hisaishi
Even though country is a large percentage of what I do. I don’t want to get locked into just one area because I write a lot of different kinds of music and I like doing three-part harmony, minor chords and pop music.
Eddie Rabbitt
Me and my sisters were so awful. One nanny, we loved, but we hacked her email and sent her boyfriend lots of weird messages, and we once actually locked her in the toilet, too.
Suki Waterhouse
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
Marianne Faithfull
Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies – it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
Barbara Demick
It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story – of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form – became popular.
Otto Penzler
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
One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks – we locked them in my mum’s office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs.
Emilia Clarke
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
Stefan Zweig
Obviously, I can always get better on defense, improve intensity, my willingness to be locked in and stay in a stance, all that stuff is great, but I feel like playmaking, for myself, not only to create shots for myself but to create shots for others, benefits everybody.
John Collins
As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just lock

As an actor, it’s fun to play guys who aren’t just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you’re asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they’re living by.
Fred Ward
I’m locked in no matter what I’m doing. If it’s a competition, I’m locked in.
Patrick Beverley
We did so much music together, before he got locked up, it’s just, Gucci, he don’t hold on to music. He like, Man, let’s put this out, let’s put that out, let’s put this out. That’s what he do. He like to put out a lot of music.
Young Dolph
I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn’t say it’s how I am naturally, but it’s how I am naturally when I’m on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.
Dan Mintz
It’s human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn’t make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you’re doing something extremely small – a locked room-style story.
N. K. Jemisin
My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.
Murray Head
Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.
Sarah MacLean
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody’s head.
Robert Smithson
I keep my guns on one part of the house totally locked up, and I keep the ammunition in another part of the house.
Mike Leach
Largely this is a class thing – writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it – being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts – it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can’t just live in my head.
Tony Parsons
We were going to do ‘Reno 911!: New York, New York, Las Vegas,’ which was like a ‘Die Hard’ set not in New York, but in the New York, New York casino in Las Vegas. We were really excited about being locked into the one casino and doing a bad action movie.
Robert Ben Garant
We believe that cloud will be based on significant open-source components that are offered as services. People don’t want to be locked into a single provider.
Diane Greene
People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.
Will Carling
When you sit on something for so long you can’t see beyond it. It’s all you can see, so you become locked in it.
Anthony Hemingway
Just have to continue to motivate myself to be ready at any time, be ready to go no matter what. Keep my mind busy and stay locked in.
Collin Sexton