Bolts Quotes - Page 4

• There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Nuts, Together, Mystery

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• A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes.

  Jim Butcher

  Gratitude, Courage, Hero

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

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• It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

  Herodotus

  Pride, Tree, Suffering

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• Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

  George Carlin

  Cutting, Nuts, Insanity

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• Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?

  Thomas Dunn English

  Sweet, Fear, Hair

  'Ben Bolt'

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• And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.

  Peter Damian

  Christian, Heart, Doors

  Peter Damian (2010). “Book of Gomorrah: An Eleventh-Century Treatise against Clerical Homosexual Practices”, p.64, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

  Cesar Romero

  Father, Nuts, Gone

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• Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation, vision and revision--whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Dream, Kings, Rights

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• Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Holes, Drilling

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• As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  Warren Harding

  Climbing, Yosemite, Lasts

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• Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks for itself. This is a technical age and climbers will continue in the future to look for new routes. There is nothing more satisfying than being a pioneer.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Achievement, Age

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• We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod. "A private, relatively remote location, with thick walls to dampen the sound and preferably a sturdy door I could bolt from the inside, keeping your grandmother, your brothers, and all other painfully annoying spectators out..." Rose began to laugh. A make-out bunker... "I'm glad you find our dilemma hilarious.

  Ilona Andrews

  Brother, Wall, Grandmother

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• I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But it was a route worth bolting for, and after a time I began to take an almost perverse joy in it, or at least in doing a good job.

  Royal Robbins

  Jobs, Unique, Climbing

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• The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

  Henri Matisse

  Spring, Artist, Lightning

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• I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

  Wilfred Owen

  Jesus, Gun, Tears

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community, unfortunately, has done little to dispel. Happenstance usually plays a part, to be sure, but there is much more to invention than the popular notion of a bolt out of the blue. Knowledge in depth and in breadth are virtual prerequisites. Unless the mind is thoroughly charge beforehand, the proverbial spark of genius, if it should manifest itself, probably will find nothing to ignite.

  Paul Flory

  Blue, Views, Play

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• All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

  Wally Lamb

  Knives, World, Shade

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

  Chuck Close

  Work, Inspiration, Ideas

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• It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Movement, Lasts, Turns

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• There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.

  Otto Frank

  Wall, Mind, Locks

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• I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.

  Rich Mullins

  Christian, Nuts, People

  Rich Mullins (2010). “The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin”, p.28, Multnomah

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• In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Cities, Style, Hours

  "Fear of the dark: Mariella Frostrup goes public" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

  Matthew Ashford

  Nuts, Theatre, Prepared

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• I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre – a bolt of lightning. It’s fun to get knocked out that way!

  Iris Apfel

  Song, Falling In Love, Fun

  " "Iris Apfel: the muse of New York" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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• What are fears but voices airy?
  Whispering harm where harm is not.
  And deluding the unwary
  Till the fatal bolt is shot!

  William Wordsworth

  Fear, Voice, Whispering

  William Wordsworth (1827). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.114

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