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Quotes About Latch

When one begins to lose touch with reality, the ill brain latches obsessively and delusionally onto whatever it's immersed in—the surrounding culture's illness.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!
~ Nancy Byrd Turner
The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you
~ Freya Stark
Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.
~ Ali Smith
I was a latchkey kid. Every afternoon, I would walk home from school, let myself in, make myself a banana buttie, and watch telly until Mum came home.
~ Eddie the Eagle
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises." ~ J. M. Barrie
~ Loren W. Christensen
Betty thought the latch had popped by itself until someone outside said, "Could I have a minute of your time to tell you about the Lord's plan for your soul?
~ Louise Erdrich
The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you
~ Freya Stark
A shiver went through the shuttle's hide as it latched on the starship like a remora to a shark. Patty laid her hand against the glass, a similar shiver rippling her skin.
~ Elizabeth Bear
What's another name for a zipper? A penis flytrap.
~ Barry Dougherty
gossiping, backbiting courtiers, and as he closed the mahogany door behind him and the heavy brass latch clacked into place, the room erupted into a dozen scheming conversations. Power was like a magnet, keeping everything rigid and straight and proper. But without the magnet, it all collapsed into disorganized scrap.
~ Barry Eisler
The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
~ Freya Stark
I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
~ Harper Lee
There is an unease in you, too, which I sensed. You remind me of an anchor searching for a spot to latch on to.
~ Karen White
It is unusual for a fault to not latch but flash momentarily, indicating a transient condition that clears itself.
~ Kevin Sullivan
The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
~ Chris Hardwick
How to keep—is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keepBack beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty… from vanishing away?
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The door doesn't have a knob, just a latch held closed by a chain, another victim of Dede's shears.
~ James Patterson
Some lactation specialists suggest aiming your nipple toward your baby's nose and then directing it down to the lower part of your baby's upper lip to get him or her to open the mouth very wide. This prevents the lower lip from getting tucked in during nursing.
~ Heidi Murkoff
This, my children, Alistair said proudly, was barbecue pork. Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. Been out in the sun for a long time.
~ Peter Lerangis
The gate was shut, and he didn't bother fumbling for the latch but seized it with both hands and vaulted over, feeling an absurd rush of fierce pleasure in the feat.
~ Diana Gabaldon