Bolts Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Muzzle control has to be a religion. You cannot point that weapon at one of your brothers-or yourself. Know where you barrel is at all times, and know the condition of your weapon-loaded or unloaded, bolt forward or to the rear, round in the chamber or not, safety on or off. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you're going to kill something.

  Dick Couch

  Brother, Safety, Muzzle

  Dick Couch (2007). “Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior”, p.177, Three Rivers Press

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• Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to grope in the mouse-turd dust, art is the equivalent of athlete's foot, at best an exquisite itch, at worst an excuse to stop walking. On the emotional side, it is either masturbation with a hockey glove or a night beneath the sliding moon that shames Eros.

  Harold Town

  Art, Athlete, Hockey

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• How does Usain Bolt know you? You're just my soccer coach.

  Matthew Hayden

  Soccer, Doe, Coaches

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• 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

  Death, Fate, Doors

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1354, Harvard University Press

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• Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fighting, Training, Exit

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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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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• 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 was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory.

  Les Dawson

  Stars, Moon, Night

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• We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast - Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.

  Christopher McDougall

  Motivation, Inspiration, Animal

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• Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

  Pema Chodron

  Desire, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Holes, Drilling

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• Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation, vision and revision--whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Dream, Kings, Rights

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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