Bolts Quotes - Page 7

• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

  Rita Coolidge

  Funny, Humor, Opportunity

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• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Leadership, Hope, Encouragement

  "History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin, (p. 577), 1880.

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• A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

  John Ciardi

  Change, Ideas, Growth

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• Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Discipline, Padlocks, Bars

  "The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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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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• The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Diversity, Lightning

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• 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

  Summer, Blue, America

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• To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Clouds, Rocks

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.805, Macmillan

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• I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Pain, Sadness, Labels

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon

  Tite Kubo

  Light, Water, Shadow

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• Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

  Seamus Heaney

  Language, Impulse, Secure

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Selected Poems 1988-2013”, p.27, Macmillan

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• 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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• 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

  Pain, Eye, Storm

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 27, 2011

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• 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

  Pain, Rain, Heart

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Passion, Writing

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Wings

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.367, Wordsworth Editions

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• A bolt from the blue.

  Daniel Handler

  Blue

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• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  Usain Bolt

  Queens, Nice, Sound

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod. "A private, relatively remote location, with thick walls to dampen the sound and preferably a sturdy door I could bolt from the inside, keeping your grandmother, your brothers, and all other painfully annoying spectators out..." Rose began to laugh. A make-out bunker... "I'm glad you find our dilemma hilarious.

  Ilona Andrews

  Brother, Wall, Grandmother

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• A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

  Minna Antrim

  Complaining, Fool, Moral

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• He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

  Robert Redford

  Sarcastic, Personality, Lightning

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