Quotes About Lock Picking

#1. John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It's fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks.

Mark Frauenfelder

#2. I was going to say I don't have a way into the house, but I have you." She grinned. "Oh Master of lock picking.

Laura Kaye

#3. Between Ricky's charm and persuasion and Gabriel's lock picking and sleight of hand, if I took enough lessons, I could become a first-rate private eye. Or a master criminal.

Kelley Armstrong

#4. I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

Barry Eisler

#5. Click. The door swung open.
"Three," James said with a slightly self-satisfied smile.
"Well done," Caroline said.
He smiled back at her. "I've never met a woman or a lock that didn't love me.

Julia Quinn

#6. That will save me from me breaking the window or picking her lock, he thought.

Deborah Harkness

#7. I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

Jack Nicholson

#8. Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

Laz Alonso

#9. When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness.

Geraldo Rivera

#10. As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure.

Natasha Kaplinsky

#11. I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

Elayne Boosler

#12. 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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#13. He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in the earth with no clarion call to memory, those they love are left without a way to make such devastating loss hold meaning.

Patricia O'Brien

#14. Six is old enough to know how to pick a lock, but not old enough to know that you don't want to be picking that lock.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

#15. There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.

Naomi Klein

#16. If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

Tom Lehrer

#17. Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor.

Catherynne M Valente

#18. And with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower.

Mary Jo Putney

#19. I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

Andre Dubus

#20. Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.

Hugh McCutcheon

#21. Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Josh Billings