Locked Quotes
667 Locked quotes by 536 unique authors
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If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A…
— Rick Riordan
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Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.
— Erin Hunter
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We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.
— Robert Lowell
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The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.
— Brian Jacques
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When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three…
— Janet Evanovich
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She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly lit, light streaming…
— Cassandra Clare
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Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them." Adam's gaze locked onto…
— Jodi Picoult
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This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.
— Jean Webster
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The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.
— Herbie Brennan
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[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.
— Mercedes Lackey
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She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed…
— Stephen King
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The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish…
— Charles Baudelaire
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And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are…
— Michael Jackson
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I locked the door, for what good it would do me, and went to bed. The Browning Hi-Power was in its second home, a modified…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.
— Louis L'Amour
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Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when…
— Herman Melville
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The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated,…
— Christopher Isherwood
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I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free
— Henry Rollins
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Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
— Ray Bradbury
Who Wrote These Locked Quotes
536 authors contributed a total of 667 Locked Quotes, led by these top contributors: