Nuts And Bolts Quotes

• It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

  Nicholas Evans

  Horse, Cowboy, Nuts

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• Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

  Jody Watley

  Caring, Reality, Nuts

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• I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

  Dave Freudenthal

  Tired, Nuts, Focus

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• 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

  Party, Nuts, People

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• The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Nuts, Procedures, Witness

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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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• Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Nuts, Feet

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• 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

  Dream, Window To The Soul, Nuts

  "Northern Exposure". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.

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• It's the nuts and bolts time of the year and we don't have enough nuts and bolts.

  Darryl Sutter

  Hockey, Years, Nhl

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• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  Adam Carolla

  Nuts, Car, Guy

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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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• There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge in science, and history, and the arts…it is the deep foundation in rich knowledge and vocabulary depth that allows you to access more complex text.

  David Coleman

  Art, Reading, Nuts

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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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• The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

  Julius Boros

  Golf, Nuts, Together

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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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• The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.

  Vaclav Havel

  War, Mean, Men

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• 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

  Nuts, Experts, Problem

  "Ice-cream icon Jerry Greenfield shares his top tips for business startups". Interview with Matthew Jenkin, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

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• 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

  Thinking, Nuts, Experts

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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

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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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 problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Reality, Views

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• 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

  Nuts, Want, Economic

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• 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

  School, Thinking, Nuts

  Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• Hillary Clinton would say I'm going to fund a program that will find the local, you know, industrial or manufacturing jobs that are available and train you to do that job. And then you're going to get that job. And it's a much more of a nuts and bolts sort of policy vision.

  George Packer

  Jobs, Nuts, Vision

  Source: www.npr.org

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• So, one, that DJ Spooky is a lot you know this sort of wilder persona and then Paul Miller is more of a nuts and bolts kind of person, meaning just making sure all these things work.

  DJ Spooky

  Nuts, Kind, Spooky

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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