Locks Quotes

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

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.

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.

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

A louse in the locks of literature.

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

You can be a victim, or you can lock and load.

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.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

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.

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I’m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.

The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.

One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.

The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want.'

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.

Patch wasn't the kind of guy mothers smiled on. He was the kind of guy they changed the house locks for.

You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!

We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

I love basketball and I'm committed to it, but if I have to lock up my spirit because of basketball, it ain't worth it.