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Quotes About Keys

As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.
~ Craig Brown
I just want to go kayaking in the Florida Keys, get a black lab, grow tomatoes, have a life.
~ Augusten Burroughs
If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I walked back across the road straight past him, fumbling in my bag for my keys. Why did fingers always turn into cocktail sausages at moments of stress?
~ Jojo Moyes
All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there's always a key out there that opens it.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold. Hamilton was fascinated by it. Wow! How big is the lock? Jonah laughed. There is no lock, cuz. It's an honorary gig. Back in my crib in LA, I've got a whole shed full of keys from different cities. Want to know the kicker? I can't get at them. The gardener lost the key to the shed.
~ Gordon Korman
Every human knows everything, but each thing requires keys to open the locks to learn
~ Sebastian Morgan
Such were the professor's words - rather let me say such the words of the fate - enounced to destroy me. As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To win, then, the parasite must do one of the following: infect somebody else by the time the immune response hits (as flu does), conceal itself inside host cells (as the AIDS virus does), change its own keys frequently (as malaria does), or try to imitate whatever password the host's own cells carry that enable them to escape attention.
~ Matt Ridley
on Ellingham's face, forcing him to look down and shield his eyes. He half crawled out of the boat onto the ground. "Open the door," the voice said. Ellingham pulled his keys from his
~ Maureen Johnson
I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.
~ Bill Bryson
Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists.
~ Joseph Gies
We cannot know whether a theory formulated in terms of mathematical concepts is uniquely appropriate. We are in a position similar to that of a man who was provided with a bunch of keys and who, having to open several doors in succession, always hit on the right key on the first or second trial. He became skeptical concerning the uniqueness of the coordination between keys and doors.
~ Eugene Paul Wigner
If you're not in my immediate circle, you're not someone whose opinion I value.
~ Madison Keys
Remaining poor in spirit, combined with a first love passion for Jesus are the keys God created to anchor us to the center of His work.
~ Bill Johnson
had a bad game with a couple of punch-outs and we had lost, and somebody asked Wilhelm, "Who do you want to have the keys?" His response was, "Give them to Schroeder. At least I know he's not going to hit anything with it.
~ Bill Schroeder
When I clean up that mess, I'm always surprised by the disproportionate energy and cheer I gain, plus I'm able to find my keys.
~ Gretchen Rubin
the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
~ Hannah Arendt
He had learned never to disturb her when the keyboard was clacking. He left a quick note and slipped out. He grabbed the 6 train up to midtown and walked to the Kinney lot on 46th Street. Mario tossed him the keys without glancing up from his paper.
~ Harlan Coben
When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the suckers, and all the while I was cursing Brittany. Okay, so I give her props for dishing it out.
~ Simone Elkeles
Memories are like a series of locked doors, and once you manage to get one open, it leads to another, and then another and so on. The hard part is finding the key to that first lock and getting through it.
~ Susan Wiggs
A pause followed my greeting. Then "We're watching you " whispered the voice on the other end. "Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? " Silence. Then dial tone. These younger demons. So easily discouraged.
~ Josh Lanyon
A Pause followed my greeting. Then, 'We're watching you,' whispered the voice on the other end. 'Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys?
~ Josh Lanyon