Nuggets Quotes - Page 2

• I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

  Jill Tweedie

  Hate, Reading, Avid

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and state, please.' 'Yeah, I'd like the number of Macy's in Century City, California.' 'Did you say 'pretzel nuggets'?

  Andy Kindler

  Cities, Voice, California

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• Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.

  Jamie Oliver

  Junk, Looks, Golden

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly meant: not the literal gold nuggets that they pulled out of the earth, not the riches people got when they came here, but the dreams that brought people here and are still bringing people here.

  Huell Howser

  Dream, Mean, California

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• Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Years, Trying

  John C. Maxwell (2009). “How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Dazed, Nick nodded, then looked to Caleb. “I’m such an effing idiot.” “We knew that,” he said drily. “We definitely didn’t have to throw you into a coma for that little-known nugget.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Littles, Idiot, Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Number 4 in series”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget

  Jeff Kinney

  Chicken Nuggets, Chickens

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• Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Hats, Forget

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• So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

  Ava Gardner

  Lust, Gold, Old Time

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• In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

  Cherie Priest

  Lying, Wings, California

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Boneshaker”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Leo drummed his fingers. “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” Hazel frowned. “What is a chicken nugget?” “Oh, man…” Leo shook his head in amazement. “That's right. You’ve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—” “Doesn’t matter,” Annabeth interrupted.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Should Have, Years

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• Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Pigs, Talking

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• I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Book, Light

  Salman Rushdie (2011). “The Moor's Last Sigh”, p.240, Random House

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• Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mind, Yodeling, Sometimes

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Haunted”, p.56, Seal Books

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• Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Reading, Gold, Study

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• In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets.

  Jared Diamond

  Baby, Sex, Oil

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• Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget,
  Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

  Jeru the Damaja

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Come Clean, Album: The Sun Rises in the East

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• That's a great golden nugget that's going in my tactical toolbox

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Golden, Toolbox

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• The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Eye, California, Southern

  Antoinette May, Helen Hunt Jackson (1989). “The annotated Ramona”, Wide World Pub Tetra

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• You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

  Alexandra Fuller

  War, Jumping, Hatred

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• The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In this engaging and provocative book, Eldon Taylor provides his readers with specific ways in which their beliefs can lead to success or failure in their life undertakings. Each chapter provides nuggets of wisdom as well as road maps for guiding them toward greater self-understanding, balance, responsibility, and compassion.

  Stanley Krippner

  Book, Believe, Responsibility

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• Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he'd thrown in there.

  Johnny Depp

  Glasses, Years, Littles

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• Chicken nuggets don't die any easier than baby fur seals.

  Ted Nugent

  Baby, Fur, Easier

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• Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

  Kathleen Parker

  Mother, Should Have, League

  Interview with Howard Kurtz, transcripts.cnn.com. October 5, 2008.

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• Taping yourself and making yourself listen to the tape of each performance no matter how bad is really important. There's always a nugget line or a direction pointed out to you in even the worst show.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Important, Tape, Lines

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