Quotes About Locked
Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.
~ Albert Einstein
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Buff paused beneath a shut and locked window, some three feet from the ground. He gathered his waning strength f or one more effort, and sprang upward. Through the thin and cracked glass and the rotting sash he chose his way, alighting on the slimy concrete floor of the garage amid a shower of window particles.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
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energy outburst from that seal. But yesterday, the seal acted strangely. There was a minute energy outburst from that seal. We don't know what caused that power outburst, but it was a direct result of the fight off Steve and Enderbrine. Protocols were immediately issued to me. I was given the task of immediately stopping your fight. We cannot take the chances if the seal gets broken. Whatever is in it was locked centuries ago by the 'Inferno squad'. This is
~ Alex Anderson
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London is locked in a sort of dance of propriety, and it seems to me that it has led to desperation among certain elements of our society.
~ Alex Grecian
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Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine. "You're not dead." "No," I said. "Though we're trying awfully hard.
~ Rick Riordan
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I found something Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. It was taped to the back of my dresser drawer. What do you think? Buried treasure? Secret passageway? Locked room where they keep crazy old Aunt Edna? It probaly unlocks another dresser, Tori said. One they threw out fifty years ago. Its tragic, being born without an imagination. Do they hold telethons for that?
~ Kelley Armstrong
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According to the notes, some of the kids had problems. So they locked them up in a group home. The kids figured out why they were there and escaped. And apparently came back and destroyed the laboratory, killing Dr. Davidoff and several others. "Why can't we do that?" Corey said. "Because we don't know where to find anyone," I said. "Even if we did, we aren't ready for that.
~ Kelley Armstrong
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I believe words contain worlds of words and meanings that are, more often than not, locked beneath the surface. Poetry is what happens when words are opened up, and those worlds within are made visible, and the music behind the words is heard. And songs do that, too, just in a different order.
~ Jeff Tweedy
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Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred; He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there But the landlord's black-eyed daughter, Bess, the landlord's daughter, Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
~ Alfred Noyes
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THERE was once a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house the people who were giving the dinner party.
~ Ali Smith
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The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.
~ David Talbot
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I look around the room for anything that might give me a clue to who might have done it. But who am I kidding? I'm not a real detective. Maybe if the killer dropped an eight-by-ten and their Social Security card I could figure things out, but the room looks just how I remember it, and Gentry's door was locked.
~ Richard Kadrey
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Why couldn't I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?
~ Richelle Mead
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There was a malevolence about them, a sinister feel as their eyes locked onto us and didn't let go.
~ Richelle Mead
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It is an unwritten law of the Navy that facilities must always be locked when they are most needed.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
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Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.
~ Robert Greene
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The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North")
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
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R shook his head, scratched it. From the rear his head looks like it has a little square suitcase attached to it. (It reminds me of an old painting called "In the Carriage".) ... I looked at that tightly locked little suitcase of his and wondered, "What thoughts are turning over now in that case?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Area X, before the ill-defined Event that locked it behind the border thirty years ago and made it subject to so many inexplicable occurrences, had been part of a wilderness that lay adjacent to a military base.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
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He knew, too, that nukes were locked in on Area X from the nearest silos, military satellites keeping watch from above.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
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Bryn?" Chase's voice was a whisper in my mind, and the sensation sent a single chill up my spine. "Yes?" "You asked me what I liked, before." He paused, and all the silence tickled my mind, the chill in my spine climbing its way to the hairs on the back of my neck. "Before, I loved cars, Yeats, having a bedroom that locked from the inside, and you.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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Lazuli sincerely wished she could have done a little homework on this family before embarking on her exercise, but the Fowl file was locked up tighter than a dwarf's wallet. The strange boy's smile is not a friendly one, she realised. It is the smile of a boy who has a secret. As for the second child, he was apparently a simpleton who cawed and screeched down at seagulls as the chopper whupped overhead.
~ Eoin Colfer
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She taught him that sometimes, when someone was in emotional denial, they needed proof of how wrong they really were. Sometimes they needed actions instead of words. Sometimes they needed someone to make the hard decision or to say the painful thing, or they would be lost and locked in their own hearts forever.
~ Amy Lane
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collarShowed him the gentleman an' scholar.
~ Robert Burns
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