Locks Quotes
445 quotes by 395 authors
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I…
— Jerry Garcia
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Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
— Tennessee Williams
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Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from…
— Leonard Cohen
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...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take…
— Italo Calvino
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It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.
— Sarah Dessen
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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can…
— Po Bronson
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don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
— Charles Bukowski
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We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside
— Richard Paul Evans
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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced…
— Scott Westerfeld
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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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[C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?
— Truman Capote
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I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against…
— Scott Westerfeld
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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
Who Wrote These Locks Quotes
395 authors contributed a total of 445 Locks Quotes, led by these top contributors: