Bolts Quotes - Page 9

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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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.

Christopher McDougall

Running, Art, Real

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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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I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

Agnes Varda

Inspirational, Believe, Blue

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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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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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He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

Robert Redford

Sarcastic, Personality, Lightning

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Minna Antrim

Complaining, Fool, Moral

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

Otto Frank

Wall, Mind, Locks

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Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.

Laurie Notaro

Dad, Laughter, Book

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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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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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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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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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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 come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel into it so that we can capture images that were real.

John Dykstra

Real, Airplane, Motorcycle

Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. August 31, 2011.

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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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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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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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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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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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