Quotes of: Keyhole Keyword

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

He that peeks through a keyhole may see what will vex him.

Scottish

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Mary McCarthy

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Arthur Koestler

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

Judy Garland

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Billy Sunday

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Peter Ustinov

[regarding Jeff's telephoto lens] Stella: Mind if I use that portable keyhole?

Rear Window

Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

Gary K. Wolf

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too,” I said. “But he went on. I expect you to do the same.

The Wind Through the Keyhole

I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched...

Dita Von Teese

Carter Chambers: Forty-five years goes by pretty fast. Edward Cole: Like smoke through a keyhole.

The Bucket List

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart? Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue...is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved?

L V HALL

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

The Wind Through the Keyhole

Police sergeant: He just sits in there, rigid-like. Switchboard operator Gertie: If he catches you at that keyhole, *you'll* be rigid-like.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Sidney Kidd: Anyway, presented for the first time, quote: A wedding day inside mainline society. Macaulay Connor: Or what the kitchen maid saw through the keyhole. Unquote.

The Philadelphia Story

You were listening at the door, Gigi!" "No, Grandmamma." "Yes, you had your ear to the keyhole. You must never listen at key-holes. You don't hear properly and so you get things all wrong.

Gigi and Julie de Carneilhan

I wish I could," laughed the vampire. "How positively delightful. I should like to pass through all manner of different keyholes and feel the tickle of their peculiar shapes. No." He shook his head. "That is, how would you say today . . . bullshit?

Interview with the Vampire

I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking ...

Sue Monk Kidd