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Bolts are the murder of the impossible. -- Reinhold Messner
Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm. -- Toni Morrison
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. -- Minna Antrim
I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts. -- Matthew Ashford
I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts. -- Dave Freudenthal
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along. -- Jody Watley
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. -- Aaron Eckhart
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
I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealand's economic performance. -- David Cunliffe
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. -- Marilyn French
Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. -- Herodotus
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
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 Mittal
It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude. -- Paul Hawken
Startups are often very undercapitalised, but I found that to be very beneficial because it forces you not to throw money at problems. Instead, you learn all the nuts and bolts of what you're doing and become an expert. -- Jerry Greenfield
Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together. -- Susan Estrich
The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no pesky nuances and almost no background about the series' continuing characters - just the hard nuts and bolts of pure storytelling. -- Tom Shales
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known. -- George Will
I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting. -- Jane Elliot
Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support. -- Laura Wasser
Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside. -- Terry Pratchett
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance. -- Plutarch
Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw. -- James Russell Lowell
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. -- Bill Watterson
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! -- Nicholas Evans
There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind. -- Otto Frank
It's the nuts and bolts time of the year and we don't have enough nuts and bolts. -- Darryl Sutter
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. -- James Russell Lowell
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are. -- Virginia Woolf
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth. -- Wally Lamb
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars. -- Adam Carolla
The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul. -- Etta James
The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole. -- Julius Boros
It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. -- William Shakespeare
Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those. -- Ian Mcewan
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets. -- William Shakespeare
If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree. -- Philip Yancey
They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts. -- Henry Bromell
It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning. -- Nicole Jordan
I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance. -- David Cunliffe
Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain. -- Dorothy Parker
We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-. -- Emily Dickinson
There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts. -- Rick Yancey
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
Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people. -- Richelle Mead
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. -- Marilyn French
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
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder. -- Robert Jordan
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
The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate. -- Jean-François Beauchemin
What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange. -- Drew Goddard
I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks. -- Max Tundra
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
It's hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts. -- Pedro Noguera
I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system. -- Eliot Spitzer
Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in. -- Sam Ewing
Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey. -- Pablo Neruda
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 Mittal

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