Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
Henry Van Dyke

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valery

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.
John Abizaid

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.
John Abizaid

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.
John Abizaid

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
John Abizaid

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
Sri Aurobindo

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Abbie Hoffman

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
Stevie Nicks

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein

I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.
Glenn Danzig

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
M. H. Abrams

And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
Damon Wayans

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.
Chuck Noll

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
Yakov Smirnoff

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.
Jimmy Fallon

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Robert Anton Wilson

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
Jim Henson