Nuts Quotes - Page 13

• Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Clever, Smart, Winning

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• I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Play, Ties, Thrill

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• You know, I understand that a lot of people, especially up north, put fruits and nuts in their stuffing, which is good, but for myself personally, I love an old-timey savory dressing.

  Paula Deen

  Up North, People, Fruit

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• The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

  Larry David

  Salad, Beneficial

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• I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it's a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, America, People

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• I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Three, Four

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• The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

  Emma Watson

  Differences, Important, Entertainment

  Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.glamour.com. September 3, 2012.

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• Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.

  Rick Riordan

  Wind, Patterns, Littles

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

  James Patterson

  Emphasis, Our Lives

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• He's nuts" Bianca said "We need to jump off this cliff" i said "Oh nice idea!! Your nuts too

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, Ideas, Needs

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• ... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

  Anne Lamott

  Tribes, Reason

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• Whenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut,” she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans.

  Kerstin Gier

  Running, Eye, Squirrels

  Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.10, Macmillan

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• My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

  Martha Beck

  Jobs, Thinking, Mind

  "Secret to finding unexpected miracles" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Yes, I-- I think I love her. Is that nuts?

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking

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• Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.

  Suzanne Collins

  Force Fields, Mags, Bunch

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.851, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.

  Eminem

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• A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.

  Jasper Fforde

  Missing, Arms, Might

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• As her skin sizzled under the delicious heat, she supposed she should’ve been giving serious thought to the lunacy of what she was doing playing with a vampire, who was, for all his charm, as lethal as a stiletto across the throat. But then again, most of her friends already thought she was half a nut short of a fruitcake. Why disappoint?

  Nalini Singh

  Giving, Vampire, Skins

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection”, p.22, Penguin

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• I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

  Rick Riordan

  Notebook, Written, Ifs

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• They-" He stopped and just blinked at me for a minute. "You know, people are always saying that you're cuckoo. Looney Tunes. Off the freaking edge. But I tell 'em, no, she's okay. She's got some...anger management issues. But you know what? They're right. You're nuts.

  Karen Chance

  Issues, People, Tunes

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• They've said 'Roseanne's nuts' for years, and now I'm going to make that a reality - I'm all about nuts now, macadamia nuts!

  Roseanne Barr

  Reality, Years, Said

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• Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Thinking, Expression, Would Be

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and a bunch of guys moaning in Italian. The demon pigeons went nuts. They started flying in circles, running into each other like they wanted to bash their own brains out.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Italian, Air

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• So I'm guessing you're Seven and Ten; What can you do?" I say as I find our rifles in the sand and hand each of them a gun. "You can call me Marina," the girl with the brown hair says. "And I can breathe under water and see in the dark and heal the sick and wounded. And I have telekinesis." Call me Ella, I hear ten say in my head. Aside from my telepathy, I can change ages. "Awesome. I'm four, that nut job with the long black hair is nine and the beast is my chimaera, Bernie Kosar.

  Pittacus Lore

  Girl, Jobs, Dark

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• I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" - Leo Valdez

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Trying, Athena

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