Quotes About Locks

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.

No, he was not as handsome as poor Wrotham, whose dark, stormy beauty troubled her dreams a little. Wrotham was a romantic figure, particularly when his black locks were disheveled through his clutching them in despair.

The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

We can rob nobles. We can do second-story work. We can slide down chimneys and slip locks and rob coaches and break vaults and do a fine spread of card tricks," said Locke. "I could cut your balls off, if you had any, and replace them with marbles, and you wouldn't notice for a week. But I hate to tell you that the one class of criminal we really haven't associated with, ever, is fucking pirates!" "We're at a bit of a loss

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there's always a key out there that opens it.

Investing in long overdue infrastructure projects like the Montgomery Locks and Dams system is critical to the health of our region's economy.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

he still hadn't come across a spell to make locks fall apart. Didn't any of those goddam sorcerers in ages past ever get busted for anything? Bunch of sissies…

Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not on open shelves, but in locked chests.

When you have seen the eddies caused by salinity differences in the Panama locks, one prefers to give a wide berth to similar phenomena when they are on an oceanic scale.

La puerta de piedra, tan pesada como imponente, cuelga de oxidados goznes de hierro, y se ofrece entornada de un modo sorprendente y siniestro, merced a gruesas cadenas y grandes candados, siguiendo un rudo hábito de hace medio siglo.

Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.

tarnished keys, gilded keys, keys

Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.

O rose! the sweetest blossom, Of spring the fairest flower, O rose! the joy of heaven. The god of love, with roses His yellow locks adorning, Dances with the hours and graces.

Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.

When you've been captured as often I have, you develop an interest in locks and escapology.

Key rings rattle throughout history. Each key, each lock has its tale.

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

Avoid holding locks during lengthy computations or operations at risk of not completing quickly such as network or console I/O.

they wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to find a rhyme for "daffodil.

When a thread requests a lock that is already held by another thread, the requesting thread blocks. But because intrinsic locks are reentrant, if a thread tries to acquire a lock that it already holds, the request succeeds. Reentrancy means that locks are acquired on a per-thread rather than per-invocation basis.

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.