Quotes and Sayings About Locks
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It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.
-- Adrian Rogers -
I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.
-- Alexander Wang -
One does not need to lock up that which is not dangerous.
-- Alexandra AdornettoSource : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.268, Macmillan
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But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.
-- Alexandra BrackenSource : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.78, Hachette UK
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I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.
-- Amanda Burton -
You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.
-- Amit Ray -
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...
-- Armistead Maupin -
Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
-- Ava DuVernay -
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
-- Barney Ross -
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.
-- Bart Stupak -
I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.
-- Bert Blyleven -
If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
-- Bill Hicks -
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Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
-- Brian Tracy -
I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.
-- Bruce Bartlett -
Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.
-- Bruce Schneier -
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
-- Carl Sandburg -
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Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
-- Cat PowerSource : "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.
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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.
-- Catherine Tate -
I've never been sent a lock of hair or anything like that, but I've gotten underwear with my face on it. That was weird.
-- Channing Tatum -
It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.79, Macmillan
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
-- Christopher Morley -
I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.
-- David Ginola -
The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.
-- David Levithan -
American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.
-- Dennis Etchison -
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Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.
-- Donald A. Norman -
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
-- Frank Herbert -
Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.
-- Frank OzSource : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.
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If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.
-- Geneen Roth -
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.
-- George PeeleSource : 'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'