Jens Stoltenberg

We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

Norwegian Politician

Jane Campion

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

New Zealander Director

Stephanie Zimbalist

I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

American Actress

Peter Landesman

Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.

American Director

Lena Headey

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

English Actress

Georgia May Jagger

I have a coconut oil stick, which I use for everything - on my eye lids to make them shinier, on my lips, and on any dry skin.

English Model

Julian Treasure

Your ears are always on - you have no ear lids. They work even when you sleep.

American

Henry J. Kaiser

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

American Businessman

Debra Fischer

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

American Scientist

Julian Barratt

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

English Comedian

Used to describe the top part that closes containers like jars, boxes, or pots.

Container Closure

'Lid' is often used metaphorically to suggest preventing secrets from being known.

Secrecy Metaphor

Lid implies a tight fit to protect contents, prevent spills or keep things fresh.

Seal Tightly

Refers to the skin that covers and protects the eye when you blink or sleep.

Eye Covering

Eye lids can indicate a person's mood, such as sleepy, surprised, or skeptical.

Expression Indicator

Rapid blinking or heavy lids can communicate non-verbal cues about a person's feelings or thoughts.

Body Language

Slang for hats or caps, often used in casual or urban contexts.

Headwear

Tipping one's lid is an old-fashioned greeting or a sign of respect.

Greetings Gesture

Used informally, especially in phrases like 'keep a lid on it' to stay calm or keep quiet.

Colloquial Use

In poker, 'lid' refers to the maximum bet someone can make in a game.

Poker Term

A way to describe a limit applied to an activity or behavior to keep it under control.

Control Mechanism

Emphasizing the restrictive nature of a rule or boundary.

Restriction Significance

 Most people cannot play them that way. And when this started to get serious, I thought, I'd better put a really serious warning label on the box that this comes in, because otherwise people are going to be getting this and they're going to be turning into agents of creative change, and governments will be crumbling, and I wouldn't have told people, so I thought I'd better warn them. And I also put this little surprise. When you open the lid

Jay Silver: Hack a...

 All of these things are happening in plain sight, and they're all protected by a force field of tediousness. And I think, with all of the problems in science, one of the best things that we can do is to lift up the lid, finger around at the mechanics and peer in. Thank you very much.

Ben Goldacre: Battling...

 She’d take one glance inside, then be able to rid her mind of it forever But at the first crack of the lid, the box burst open. Monstrous creatures and horrendous sounds rushed out in a cloud of smoke and swirled around her, screeching and cackling. Filled with terror,

The myth of Pandora’s...

 or what they can observe a few feet below or on the shoreline it's not as though we can take the lid off and peer inside since most people never go diving we will have very little frame of reference for understanding the scale and nuance and the problems of the ocean

The role of disruption...

 is where I would be at the end of the world home sweet home most important thing about this entire project this lid has to be camouflaged to match the surrounding area we're just gonna add everything that's around here all right we got to make it look the

Spider Hole PIPE Doomsday...

 teeth they don't look like that that's actually the symbol of breath of the spirit of life that's emerging out of his mouth it's almost like a hieroglyph throne in three shown in three dimensions and of course the very famous lid I think we all have seen

Palenque and the Ancient...

 So go outside a lot and look up. My pastor said you can trap bees on the bottom of mason jars without lids because they don't look up, so they just walk around bitterly bumping into the glass walls. Go outside. Look up.

12 truths I learned from...

 I order as quick as I can and I move along to collect my coffee. Now, think just for a second. Where do they put it? Up high and without a lid. Reaching up to collect a coffee that I have paid for

Why design should...

 an added attractive factor to lure in prospective prey in most species an elongated lid covers the pitcher's opening sheltering it from heavy rain and protecting the digestive juices at the

This Plant Traps its...

 Some have protective lids, others squirt blood. But which creature has the best sight? Which sees best in the darkness? Which sees the most detail? Which animal sees the most color?