“The gunner’s mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.”

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

I’d get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I’d take a shell and a bag of powder, I’d put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart.

Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.

She doesn’t give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.

And a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside.

It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Even though there’s reasons to try things that may or may not work, it’s still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.