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Quotes About Locked

What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure? How's that? On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
they would praise me too if their lips weren't locked in fear. Lucky tyrants - the perquisites of power! Ruthless power to do and say whatever pleases them.
~ Sophocles
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.
~ Morgan Freeman
Sunt dup?-amiezi ce au ceva din tristeÅ£ea unui omor nereuÅŸit - ÅŸi-n care inima pare a-ÅŸi fi z?vorât intr?rile, ca sângele s? nu-i mai p?teze visurile.
~ Emil Cioran
I can do a dance, adventure, or sports-based reality shows. But I cannot live in a locked house because I'm very moody.
~ Shaheer Sheikh
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
~ George Orwell
But even that was a memorable event in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
~ George Orwell
Damn it, he was in here with the door locked!' Stephen said. 'He can't have been stabbed'.
~ Georgette Heyer
Me and my sisters were so awful. One nanny, we loved, but we hacked her email and sent her boyfriend lots of weird messages, and we once actually locked her in the toilet, too.
~ Suki Waterhouse
I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
~ Anne Lamott
In the horrible places, the battle for control escalates until you get tied down or locked into your Geri-chair or chemically subdued with psychotropic medications.
~ Atul Gawande
The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.
~ Augusten Burroughs
The prospect of being locked in my own, ugly mind terrifies me.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.
~ Erin Hunter
and in my mind I pushed the locked, heavy box of fear all the way to the back of the attic.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I was really worried about the Windows RT project and these other efforts where Microsoft was creating versions of Windows that would be locked down and could force you to only install software through the Microsoft store.
~ Tim Sweeney
My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room.
~ Alessandra Torresani
The staff played hot potato with my call until someone could locate the Person in Charge of Lying to the Press. The PCLP said that the room that houses the base archives is locked. And that only the curator would have a key. And that Holloman currently has no curator. Evidently the new curator's first task would be to find a way to open the archives.
~ Mary Roach
If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered. And the fears locked in small brains are much too large to pass through the orifice of the mouth.
~ Stephen King
In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king. And honey, you should see me in a crown.
~ Stephen Thompson
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
~ Erma Bombeck
You must be there with me, Atalanta. I wouldn't be able to say a word if I was alone with him. And we must see him secretly. If my father knew, he'd lock me up again." Again? I wanted to ask what she meant, but with Medea, perhaps there were some riddles better left unanswered.
~ Esther M. Friesner
Father John Misty is rebelling not against repression or foolishness but the ephemeral nature of mankind. He seeks permanence in a fleeting age, and he does not find it because the one place he could find an answer, he considers closed off: a locked door.
~ Ben Domenech
Nahum did not send her to the county asylum, but let her wander about the house as long as she was harmless to herself and others. Even when her expression changed he did nothing. But when the boys grew afraid of her, and Thaddeus nearly fainted at the way she made faces at him, he decided to keep her locked in the attic.
~ H.P. Lovecraft