Lock Quotes
520 quotes by 419 authors
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You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam." You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you ever think if…
— Wendy Mass
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Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.
— Wendy Mass
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The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into…
— Margaret Atwood
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When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.
— Gordon Korman
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If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.
— Julio Cortazar
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Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll…
— Meg Rosoff
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The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for…
— C.S. Lewis
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YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make…
— James Patterson
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When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs…
— Neil Gaiman
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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon…
— Mark Twain
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The locker at the end of her bed had no lock, and one of the hinges was busted. She opened it up. There was a…
— Maureen Johnson
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If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the…
— Pablo Neruda
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Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,…
— Laurence Sterne
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Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?
— Gregory Maguire
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This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with…
— Jodi Picoult
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I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
— Alice Sebold
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It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like…
— Nancy Werlin
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You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster!
— Stephenie Meyer
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Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and…
— Jerry Spinelli
Who Wrote These Lock Quotes
419 authors contributed a total of 520 Lock Quotes, led by these top contributors: