Locks Quotes - Page 14

• Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doors, Voice, Mountain

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.387, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• As far as the hate, it makes me laugh. Everybody is a critic. Every critic I've ever had, they weren't wrestlers. Every wrestler I've ever had critique me, they were always into my stuff or what I'm doing out there. For a non-wrestler, someone who doesn't even know how to lock up, and if we did lock up, they wouldn't know what to do, for them to critique any of us, it really does pop me.

  Roman Reigns

  Hate, Laughing, Doe

  "Roman Reigns Talks 'Royal Rumble,' Injury Return & Haters". Interview with Joshua Caudill, www.craveonline.com. January 22, 2015.

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• We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

  Ross Macdonald

  Broken, Wish, Crafts

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast”

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• When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hair, Two, America

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• To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

  Carl Sandburg

  Glasses, Rooms, Fool

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Thinking, Persistence

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• There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

  Michael Bassey

  Dream, Distance, Climbing

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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dream, Lying, Wrath

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?

  Tim Ward

  Crazy, People, Suffering

  Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.47, Changemakers Books

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• Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Hate, Keys

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• Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

  Pablo Picasso

  Years, Style, Vision

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• Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Needs, Done

  "Ava Duvernay ‘My Mic Sounds Nice’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 25, 2010.

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• By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, School, Average

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• When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.

  Beth Ditto

  Teenager, Bisexual, Hair

  "What should I do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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• If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Going Away, Want

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Doors, Luxury, Comfort

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• But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Kings, Doors, Public Opinion

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• Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead." The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand." I answered, "I don't either." A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood. Then she died.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Tired, Eye

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.358, Penguin

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• How'd you get in here?" She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?” she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.

  Ally Carter

  Hands, Eyebrows, Pockets

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• The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was cold with the rage of battle, and... "And his arm looked like an eggplant," Clary muttered to herself in exasperation.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Eggplant, Black

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

  Suzanne Collins

  Names, Lips, Fingers

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1209, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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

  Keys, Cities, Two

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• True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

  Kerstin Gier

  Stars, Past, Wings

  Kerstin Gier (2012). “Sapphire Blue”, p.33, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest will be honest as long as the conditions are right - but if they are tempted enough, they'll be dishonest too. Locks won't protect you from the thieves, who can get in your house if they really want to. They will only protect you from the mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock".

  Dan Ariely

  Doors, Long, People

  Dan Ariely (2012). “The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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