Locks Quotes - Page 8

• I ushered souls into the next world. I was the grave of all hope. I was the ultimate reality. I was the assassin against whom no lock would hold. - "Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?"

  Terry Pratchett

  Taken, Reality, Skills

  "Mort". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1987.

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• Fine," Strider said tightly. "You can. But you wont. Because you know that if you take the woman out of this home, I'll go gray from worry. And you like my hair the way it is." "Stridey-man. Are you hitting on my? Trying to get me to run my fingers through those mangy locks?" Gideon chuckled. "Sweetie pie." Striders lips even twitched into a grin. "You know I hate when you get mushy like that." Boy loved it. No question.

  Gena Showalter

  Running, Hate, Home

  Gena Showalter (2017). “Lords of the Underworld: The Darkest Sampler: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure\The Darkest Whisper\The Darkest Passion\The Darkest Lie”, p.241, Harlequin

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• Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake.

  Ilona Andrews

  Night, Light, Records

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• I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the truck, leaving her standing there. She blinked her eyes, and slowly a smile stretched her lips. She strolled to the truck and got in. "So, are you homicidal or merely as irritable as a wounded buffalo?" "About halfway in between," he said through clenched teeth. "Anything I can do to help?" His eyes were narrow and intense. "It isn't just the cigarettes. Take off your panties and lock your legs around me, and I'll show you.

  Linda Howard

  Eye, Smoking, Leaving

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• Click. The door swung open. "Three," James said with a slightly self-satisfied smile. "Well done," Caroline said. He smiled back at her. "I've never met a woman or a lock that didn't love me.

  Julia Quinn

  Doors, Self, Done

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• I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a release date and so you're stuck to that schedule. But sometimes you're still editing and you feel like you're not really done, but they're sort of releasing the movie anyway - that's kind of depressing.

  Rob Zombie

  Depressing, Editing, Release Date

  Source: onstagereview.com

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• [T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.

  E. O. Wilson

  Mean, Civilization, Ideas

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• For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright!
  I have twined them in my sister's locks
  That are hid in the dust from sight.

  Phoebe Cary

  Sight, Dust, Rose

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.174

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• Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. "Natalie's diary has better security than this." He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.

  Gordon Korman

  Twilight, Thinking, Doors

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• I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?

  Richelle Mead

  School, Thinking, Parent

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• When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sleep, Way, Failing

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• You say the gentleman I knew has been replaced. How I wish I could offer better comfort than to say that no matter how you have changed, you wil be welcomed when you return. Do what you must. If it helps you to endure, put the feelings away for now, and lock the door. Perhaps someday we'll air them out together.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Air, Doors, Feelings

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• What were you dreaming about?" "You." He twisted a lock of her hair around his finger. "I always dream about you." "Oh, yeah? Because I thought you were having a nightmare." He tipped his head back to look at her. "Sometimes I dream you're gone," he said. "I keep wondering when you'll figure out how much better you could do and leave me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Hair, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1348, Simon and Schuster

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• If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

  Anne Lamott

  Doors, Wife, House

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.178, Anchor

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• At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1196, Macmillan

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• As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

  Tracey Ullman

  Keys, Key To Success

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• Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

  Patti Davis

  Alzheimer's, Doors, Disease

  Patti Davis (2004). “The Long Goodbye”, Knopf

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• When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dream, Real, Self

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• I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I always try to move it around, or to readapt it. Ecco! If you lock me in a room, well I'll go out through the window! I always remember Achille Castiglioni, one of my mentors, and he always said that in industrial design you have the idea, the fantasy, the concepts - that's the marmalade! - but the constraint of the brief is the bread. You need both in order to find structure for your ideas.

  Patricia Urquiola

  Moving, Thinking, Order

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• Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Philosophy, Party, Ideas

  "Special Report" With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2007.

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• It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!" Was it not easier for the hero of Judaea to avoid the touch of the fair Philistine, than to elude her power when held in her arms?

  Jane Porter

  Hero, Angel, Temptation

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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• I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Thinking, Literature, Translations

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• Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  School, Wonder, Said

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

  Anne Frank

  Doors, Self, Use

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.175, Bantam

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• I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

  Christina Rossetti

  Wall, Doors, Self

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.277, Delphi Classics

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