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Quotes About Lock

I didn't know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world's premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.
~ Ally Carter
Maddie had never really understood why they had four chairs. It's not like they did a lot of entertaining. Not unless you counted the time Maddie had forgotten to lock up her cereal in an airtight container and a bear had tried to break through the cabin's front door. Which Maddie totally did not count. That bear hadn't been invited and would never be welcome again.
~ Ally Carter
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
~ Will Carleton
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts.
~ Todd McFarlane
The lock was removed, and the door rose with a ratcheting clatter, filling the truck with grim red shadows. Jack checked the time. 2:55 A.M. The people ahead of them started to move. Krista's
~ Robert Crais
The front door was a standard wood entry, stained dark to match the house. A Master deadbolt was set in the frame above the knob lock. Cole pulled on a pair of vinyl gloves, selected a pick and a tension wrench from his pick kit, and went to work. Two minutes for the deadbolt, one for the knob. On-the-job training courtesy of the United States Army. Cole
~ Robert Crais
I'll lock my heart away deeper .. if I do that .. I won't have to feel pain outside or inside .. or the fear I won't have to feel anything at all !
~ Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut.
~ zamyatin yevgeny ii
Color is only skin deep, but Prejudice penetrates to the bone. Color often fades away, yet Prejudice holds its own. Prejudice is the lock on the door to Wisdom, while Equality is the key to release that latch.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
No!" Anna cries. "Stop!" Her eyes lock on me. "Devin, do something! They have a baby! Didn't you hear them? They said, 'Help us!' They need our help! Tell them what you heard!" Everyone is looking at me. "No," I say, backing up, shaking my head. Anna is evil. I am not. I couldn't have heard. It was all in my head. "I didn't hear anything.
~ Jen Calonita
She picks the lock with a tiny pin from one of the green crystals woven into her hair. "…walk in." The door clicks.
~ Jen Calonita
Mulch locked his mouth and threw away the key.
~ Eoin Colfer
When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
~ Eric Hoffer
When Agnew and Cotter showed the committee how the new lock worked, it didn't. Something was wrong. But none of the senators, congressmen, or committee staff members realized that it wouldn't unlock, no matter how many times the proper code was entered. The decoder looked impressive, the colored lights flashed, and everyone in the hearing room agreed that it was absolutely essential for national security.
~ Eric Schlosser
satisfaction and the outer lock shut
~ Andre Norton
The phone had a lock on the dial. Only the teachers had the key. But that didn't matter, because we learned that you could dial a phone (any phone) by tapping out the phone number on the switch hook. I was a drummer, so I had pretty good timing and reflexes. I could dial that modem, with the lock in place, in less than 10 seconds.
~ Robert C. Martin
You remember that song by Jovanotti I say to you, in the river?" he asks. "Yes!" I swivel a little to look at him. "I looked it up, but I couldn't find it." "' La Valigia ,'" he says. "The suitcase. The boy is a suitcase, he travels all around, but only one person, the girl, knows how to open the lucchetto. " "The lock," I translate, suffused with happiness at this.
~ Lauren Henderson
İnsan hayat? nedir ki! Bir taraftan bir tarafa - bir kederden ötekine geçmek deÄŸil mi? - bir derdin üstüne kilit vurup - bir baÅŸkas?n? açmak!
~ Laurence Sterne
A kid asked him what his painting was. "It's Venice at night, an accountant's soul, the blood of imbeciles. Smoker's lung. Tenure. The inside of a lock, the taste of iron. Despair. A city with the streetlights shot out, the heart of a school board director." Some teachers whisper he's having a breakdown. I think he's the sanest person I know(181)".
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever. The Joker
~ Alan Moore
In the first class I ever took with Sylvia, she told us about assortative mating. Meaning like with like—depressive with depressive. The problem with assortative mating, she said, is that it feels perfectly correct when you do it. Like a key fitting into a lock and opening a door. The question being: Is this really the room you want to spend your life in?
~ Jenny Offill
But there was a thing here that I never saw. I don't think you've ever seen it either. There were Americans came here and they put whiskey in the beer. No, I said. Oui. My God, yes, that's true. Et aussi une femme qui a vomis sur la table! Comment? C'est vrai. Elle a vomis sur la table. Et après elle a vomis dans ses shoes. And afterward they come back and say they want to come again and have another party the next Saturday, and I say no, my God, no! When they came I locked the door.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It'd be like a combination lock. Every new portal would make the number of possible worlds she could have gone to increase exponentially.
~ Robert Liparulo