99+ Best Lid Quotes, And Sayings

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I have trouble keeping a lid on self-hatred. — Julian Barratt

If you don’t have humor, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now. – Roger Moore

What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off. — A. A. Gill

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hidden. ~J. R. R. Tolkien

I have to keep my stuff in a big plastic tub with a lid to prevent my cats from getting my yarn and having a party. – Susan Walters

Lid Quotes

I opened up a yogurt, and underneath the lid it said, Please try again.

I’ll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me. ~Eddie Rickenbacker

The lid, however, wouldn’t shut. The mind held back the whole sky. ― Denis Johnson

They put me in a box, and every time I try to nudge the lid open, they slam it back down. It’s like nothing about me is allowed to change. – Becky Albertalli

In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams.

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. ~Lloyd Alexander

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

You can’t sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces. – Henry J. Kaiser

She had always lived her best life in dreams.

It’s no coincidence that ‘Night at the Museum’ completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on the tone. ~Shawn Levy

Kepler’s blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets. — Debra Fischer

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. – Roland Orzabal

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

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

I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night sky — Aleister Crowley

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. – Rick Scott

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara.

Sometimes a single item can wrap up, in a nutshell, who a person is. Painted on the lid in pink, yellow, and light blue was ‘Have a Nosh With Mort & Ethel’. ~Lisa Lutz

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. — Anthony Bennett

I like to do my makeup, it depends on the event. — Felicity Jones

The story of my life could be told in a series of waffle snapshots. I spent childhood weekends watching the lid of our Munsey waffle maker rise and fall as it chugged through a single square waffle at a time. ~Chris Morocco

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. — Eddie Rickenbacker

When you label somebody and put them in a box, then you put the lid on the box, and you just never look inside again.

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

Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored, and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens. ― Tom Turner

Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand And on the sun’s noon-glory gaze;

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.~ Michael Graves

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?’ — Claire Messud

As lonesome as a kitten in a washhouse copper with the lid on. – Charles Dickens

Half-caf, double-tall, nonfat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp – to go. — Linda Evangelista

My dad had been in the second world war, suffered from anxiety, and was abusive to my mum. 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. ~Roland Orzabal

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold stove lid, either. — Mark Twain

The tight lid on it, whatever you do, and remember. – L.M. Krier

The consumer’s side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I didn’t like England. I couldn’t take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I had to put a big lid on myself. ~Jane Campion

When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, “Do what you like now. — Leo Tolstoy

I’m very pleased we got that nuclear agreement. It puts a lid on the nuclear weapons program. We have to enforce it, there have to be consequences attached to it. But that is not our only problem with Iran. – Hillary Clinton

The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens.

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 — A. A. Gill

Will the roofs of new buildings be vegetated? If not, why not? ― Tom Turner

If he’d been any other man and I’d been any other girl, I’d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes to lust. But he was Barrons and I was Mac, and a blossoming of lust was about as likely as orchids blooming in Antarctica — Karen Marie Moning

For those, like me, who can’t rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid. ~Yotam Ottolenghi

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. — Eddie Rickenbacker

The lows were horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and being unable to lift the lid and climb out. – Linda Hamilton

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

All political careers fail, but few did it as quickly as David Cameron. He came to power promising not to ‘bang on about Europe’ and ended up having the continent’s name chiseled into the lid of his political coffin. ~David Hepworth

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite. — John Keats

A good marriage can be ruined by poor communication – and by forgetting to put the lid back down. – Gene Simmons

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature.

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. ~Susie Dent

When something doesn’t work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight. — Sayo Masuda

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism’s coffin. – Lee Strobel

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

Reached down through the closed wooden lid and struck a key. A minor key, I think. – J.R. Rain

My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe. – Chip Kidd

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