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Quotes About Lockup

Keeping ducks locked up in yards covered with deep mud and stagnant water holes is an invitation to trouble.
~ Dave Holderread
You like it in jail? It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?
~ Raymond Chandler
'Lockup,' inside America's supersize prisons on MSNBC, is one of my favorite shows. I get a lot of my inspiration for Blair Waldorf from that show.
~ Stephanie Savage
The cruelest form of torture one can inflict on a kender is to lock him up. Of course, it is also widely believed that the cruelest form of torture one can inflict on any other species is to lock them up with a kender. After three days of Tasslehoff's incessant chatter, pranks, and practical jokes, the companions would have willingly traded the kender for a peaceful hour of being stretched on the rack—at least that's what Flint said.
~ Margaret Weis
Why, then, are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years?
~ John Taylor Gatto
Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
~ Patrick deWitt
It's daft, locking us up, said Nanny. I'd have had us killed. That's because you're basically good, said Magrat. The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.
~ Terry Pratchett
Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
~ Laura Dekker
By the way'[Gabriel] said,' everyone else had better keep out of here. After you spend so much time in lockup, you get to like your space. You get kind of territorial. I wouldn't want anybody to get hurt.' ... Gabriel gave [Kaitlyn] a long, measuring look. Then he flashed a brilliant, unsettling smile. 'You can come in any time you like
~ L.J. Smith
People are not like a business. You can't buy and sell them like so much property. You can't lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.
~ Harold Robbins
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.
~ Andrew O'Hagan
The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course.
~ Marc Andreessen
Because toward the end all the words started leaving. Except for the ones that had to lock up at the end of the night.
~ David Levithan
Harry grinned as the others laughed and took time out to take a poke on his cigarette, then rubbed the tip of his nose with the back of his hand. I should have you all locked up for interferin with religious freedom.
~ Unknown