Top 143 Lid Quotes & Sayings

It's no coincidence that 'Night at the Museum' completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and uniquesomething truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.

I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

I just feel like there's a lid on the basket. Three games and no shots went in, but I just have to keep working.

Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mochaccino." He looked at Magnus. "Did you pay for these?" "Sure," said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered. "I make dollar bills magically appear in their cash register." "Really?" "No." Magnus popped the lid off his own coffee. "But you can pretend I did if it makes you feel better. So, first order of business is what?

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'My goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?'

Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster." "Shut the lid after you climb in.

There's a lid for every pot... You Just have to find yours. -Avery

Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.

You cannot squelch what's happening at the moment - you cannot put a lid on it and squash it down.

As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.

Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.

You've got to get out of the car, take the keys around, open up the trunk lid, hand the keys to the Lord Jesus, get inside the trunk, slam the lid down, whisper through the keyhole, 'Lord look, fill'r up with anything you want and you drive, it's up to you from now on.'

In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on that lid a long time, trying continuously to hold down everything beneath it. To become a witness means that you have finally jumped off the lid; now you will only stand aside and will not do anything. Now you will no longer repress, now you will just witness. So everything suppressed will arise, all the repressions will catch fire; you will find flames leaping where there were only ashes.

Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape and learn quickly not to jump so high. They give up their quest for freedom. After the lid is removed, the fleas remain imprisond by their own self policing. So it is with life. Most of us let our own fears or the impositions of others imprison us in a world of low expectations.

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.

If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

No one is safe from Mattera’s hard-hitting, meticulously reported, and genuinely funny investigative journalism. CRAPITALISM blows the lid off crony capitalism.

Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

Sometimes it's a huge amble, where you're just on top, on the lid, and it's not going anywhere, and sometimes you walk on the stage and from the first note, the afterburner kicks in and you can't stop it.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.

As an organization changes your mindset as a leader also has to change. This becomes the lid to you organization. Whenever my organization starts to settle I believe I have to lift my lid, my capacity I have to think and act in a different way to achieve different results.

I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

The one thing - apart from assumptions about German - that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors of the language when in fact our job is not to put a lid on it.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.

Well,I hope you like the ring." He held it out to me, he velvet lid still closed. "My mom hates it." "I'm sure I'll love it,then," I said, and he laughed.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.