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Quotes About Lock

So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here
~ Deborah Cox
We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
to keep your sanity, you must have a place in the world where you can lose yourself if necessary. That place, that last refuge, is a small annex of the soul, and when the world reverts to its absurd comedy, you can always run there, lock yourself in and throw away the key.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But now no music was in her mind. That was a funny thing. It was like she was shut out from the inside room. Sometimes a quick little tune would come and go - but she never went into the inside room with music like she used to do. It was like she was too tense. Or maybe because it was like the store took all her energy and time . . . She wanted to stay on the inside room but she didn't know how. It was like the inside room was locked somewhere away from her. A very hard thing to understand.
~ Carson McCullers
An assistant closed the heavy door on the lobby windows and the sun. She heard a lock snap shut; the sound echoed a moment. Passerine spread his arms in a gesture that seemed to belong to the priesthood of some remote culture; perhaps to a descending angel. The auctioneer cleared his throat. Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49.
~ Thomas Pynchon
We've got the sound and we know we can find it one way or another if we've got the song - we'll chase the damn thing all around the room, up to the ceiling. We know we've got it and we'll lock on to it and find it.
~ Keith Richards
Gribshin considered what he had just seen. He knew it was important. It belonged to the future, he was sure, but was it his future. He too was pleased by the sound the lock made as it closed: it was something predictive. In the echoing tintinnabulation of the lock's components colliding hard against each other were conjured the sonances of rifle shots and beyond them smoky images of milling crowds. The sounds and images vanished without revealing to Gribshin exactly what they promised.
~ Ken Kalfus
Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and yo have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But it you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you..." she trails off. "What?" "I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.
~ Gayle Forman
People are lazy, and nobody wants to turn their phone to the side. I know I have my phone locked, so if I have to turn something to the side, I have to turn that lock off.
~ Jake Paul
makes me nervous on about five different levels. "Oh, no. He frosted under heavy guard. He's still under lock and key. But I've talked to him," Haymitch says. "Face-to-face?
~ Suzanne Collins
Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
~ Dan Hill
When we step onto the bridge, Nathan turns and spreads his arms out wide. 'Welcome to Pont des Arts, a.k.a. The Lock Bridge.
~ Ashley Earley, Alone in Paris
This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.
~ Jean Webster, Just Patty
I was in 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,' and I like my bad boy movie movies.
~ Trudie Styler
You help us, they'll lock you up for the rest of your life.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes
I could have pursued her. A paper clip could best the catch, but when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.
~ Tayari Jones
I locked him out of the reticule," Esma said. "He was speaking incoherently of cheese.
~ Neal Stephenson
But there was one area in which hackers were routinely underestimated, and that was lock picking. For them, picking locks was a nice way to kick back and relax after a long day of doing pen tests on corporate networks.
~ Neal Stephenson
And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.
~ Nicholas Sparks
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
~ Quincy Jones
Lock manufacturers are doing brisk business these days as the sale of its products is highest especially near stock market exchange because while the stock market is falling everyday and distrust growing towards it amongst traders, more and more brokerage house & MF SIP AMC offices are getting locked and unemployment soaring with layoffs
~ Lakshheish M Patel
A system in a rigidity trap has high capital, high connectivity, and high resilience (Holling 2001). A system in a poverty trap has low levels or amounts of these three properties. A system caught in an eroding or lock-trap has low capital but high levels of connectivity and resilience. The fourth trap is the least well understood of these four and is called an isolation trap, as it has high capital or potential but is not highly coupled or resilient.
~ Lance H. Gunderson
Down the endless halls of quilt My silver thread of tears is split. My fingerbone the key that broke My blood the oil that smooth the lock.
~ Catherine Fisher
The lock had been cut close to the lock body, leaving a nice loop of shank that held the door closed.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde