Nuts Quotes - Page 31

• Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

  James D. Watson

  Dna, Wings, Environmental

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• Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.

  Charlie Munger

  Loss, Risk, Return

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• I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

  Jackie French

  School, Kids, Garden

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• Life is real, reality is not a dream.
  Those who chose to sleep...I wake em up,
  Cause you're sleepin with your mouth open hummin deez nuts.

  King Sun

  Dream, Real, Rap

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• There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the spring and early summer, and even then it is too satisfying, nut sufficiently delicate. The man who gives salmon during the winter, I care not what sauce he serves with it, does an injury to himself and his guests.

  Ward McAllister

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.

  John Suckling

  Eye, Night, Glasses

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• See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

  Jesse Jackson

  Cutting, Talking, People

  "Sharpton on Jackson's Obama Remarks". "Hannity & Colmes" show, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2008.

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• What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cells, Doe, Sap

  John Greenleaf WHITTIER (1860). “Home Ballads and Poems”, p.144

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• Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the words that motivates the words, that conveys real communication and meaning.

  John Kapelos

  Real, Communication, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes the show needs that kick in the ass so being able to sing a Nirvana song kind of takes it there. I've grown up putting on extravagant shows with Girl Talk so when I'm playing I like to go nuts. After 30 minutes of pointing and clicking it's nice to scream into a microphone for three minutes.

  Girl Talk

  Girl, Song, Nice

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Learning

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

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• Children are different - mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.

  Jean Kerr

  Children, Different, Littles

  "Please Don't Eat the Daisies". Book by Jean Kerr, 1957.

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• Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Guy, Needs

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• In some cultures they don't name their babies right away. They wait until they see how the child develops. Like in Dances with Wolves. Unfortunately, our kids' names would be less romantic and poetic. "This is my oldest boy, Falls off His Tricycle, his friend, Dribbles His Juice, and my beautiful daughter, Allergic to Nuts.

  Paul Reiser

  Beautiful, Daughter, Baby

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• I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.

  Paul Newman

  Trying, Watches, Looks

  "Still the blue-eyed boy". Interview with John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 13, 2002.

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• I will say that what’s been funny is, since the lightsaber’s come out, I cannot tell you how many contradictory emails I have received from people who have both defended it with unbelievably detailed graphicsI’ve gotten things that are nuts, and I’ve gotten people who’ve shown how it’ll kill you and how it doesn’t make any sense.  It’s been the funniest thing to see the arguments that have developed over this thing.

  J. J. Abrams

  People, Email, Argument

  "Exclusive: J.J. Abrams Talks STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and That New Lightsaber" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. February 5, 2015.

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• I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

  Jimmy Durante

  Hurt, Mind, Ears

  "Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante". Book by Gene Fowler, 1951.

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• (Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Bags, Saws

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• NRA - Nuts Running America.

  Huey Long

  Running, Government, America

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• They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

  Al McGuire

  Money, Differences, Numbers

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• The noise is greater then the nuts.

  George Herbert

  Noise, Greater

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• Breakthrough ideas look crazy, nuts. It’s hard to think this way — I see it in other people’s body language, and I can feel it in my own, where I sometimes feel like I don’t even care if it’s going to work, I can’t take more change. O.K., Google, O.K., Twitter—but Airbnb? People staying in each other’s houses without there being a lot of axe murders?

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Thinking, Ideas

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• John Kerry said today that he wants to get rid of tax cuts for the rich and his wife said, 'Hey, shut up! What's the matter with you?! Are you nuts?!'

  Jay Leno

  Cutting, Wife, Hey

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• You have your opinion, I have mine, and it takes all kinds of nuts and dips to make a party, right?

  Natalie

  Party, Dip, Opinion

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• Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Allergies, Exposure, Shock

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