Bolts Quotes - Page 5

• Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Boys, Pigs

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, Art, Blood

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• I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

  William James

  Blue, Introduction, Epigrams

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

  George MacDonald

  Missing, Rope, Crafts

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.9720, e-artnow

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• Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Doors, Sky, Bird

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• Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn’t.

  Charles Soule

  Dirty, Hands, Leader

  "Black Bolt Returns In Uncanny Inhumans". Interview with Tim O'Shea, news.marvel.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Character, Men

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.101

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• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and theres ongoing creative revelations. Yes, its really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  Carlton Cuse

  Discovery, Ideas, Roots

  "Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse on the End (?) of Lost". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.vulture.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue.

  Robin Olds

  Moving, Thinking, Blue

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• Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

  James A. Garfield

  Power, Rocks, Two

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• Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Clouds, House

  'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 8 (1842 revision)

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• I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.

  Lakshmi

  Motivational, Nuts, Would Be

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• The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Storm, Thunder, Calamity

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.32

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• The other day the plane that Barack Obama was on had some mechanical difficulties and was forced to land. Well, the National Transportation Safety Board did an inspection on the plane, and you know what they found? The bolts on the plane were fine, but apparently Jesse Jackson had taken some of the nuts off.

  Jay Leno

  Taken, Nuts, Land

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• In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.

  Steven Chu

  Summer, Mother, Moving

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• I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Gone, Pieces

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• My sleeping pill is white.
  It is a splendid pearl;
  it floats me out of myself,
  my stung skin as alien
  as a loose bolt of cloth.

  Anne Sexton

  Sleep, White, Skins

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin,
  His armory would quickly be empty.

  Ovid

  Men, Jupiter, Sin

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• I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Nuts, Medicine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

  Horace

  Break Through, Gold, Stones

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• Do you think I haven't noticed? You can't wait to be free of me. I drink and then you bolt up, as if you've had to force yourself to endure my presence." She'd started to sob then. "I've always tried to be clean when I come to you. I spend hours in the tub, washing myself. But I cannot find the dirt that you see." -Marissa to Wrath

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Wrath, Waiting

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Dark Lover: Number 1 in series”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when - " The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and hauled him inside. The door banged shut after him, and Thomas, sitting bolt upright, seized reins of the horses. A moment later the carriage had lurched forth into the night, leaving Gabriel staring, infuriated, after it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Horse, Night, Doors

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

  Deb Caletti

  Soccer, Father, Lightning

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• Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.

  Justin Cronin

  Running, Baby, Sweet

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.436, Ballantine Books

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• Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do so—rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.

  Jane Lindskold

  Departed, Desire, Wolf Packs

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