Nuts Quotes - Page 5

• We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

  Mike Rowe

  Money, Jobs, Kids

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• I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

  Bram Stoker

  Cracks, Standing, Hard

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.86, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• But she's a nut, and nuts win.

  Saul Bellow

  Winning

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• ... you're nuts but you're welcome here.

  Steve Martin

  Welcome, You Re Welcome

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

  Trevor Rabin

  Mean, Evil, Guy

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• I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Crazy, Live Your Life, Bigs

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

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• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  Patricia Richardson

  Fighting, Years, Live In The Moment

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

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• I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

  Sarah Vowell

  Crazy, Madness, American History

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• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  Emma Donoghue

  Drama, Kids, Light

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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• It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm tired of all the talk about it. Everyone is obsessed with it...If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

  Marat Safin

  Dream, Tired, Thinking

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• These were highly civil comments for crying out loud. I mean, people are going nuts. USA Today, the Politico. And some people were suggesting that my comments were below the belt. Well, take a look at some pictures. Given where she wears her belts. I mean, she wears them high up there around the bust line. Isn't just about everything about her below the belt when you look at the fashion sense she has?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fashion, Stupid, Mean

  "You Can’t Say What Everyone is Thinking About the First Lady". 'The Rush Limbaugh Show', origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone [in his place] would go nuts.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Blood, Hands

  "Vladimir Putin calls John McCain 'nuts' in outspoken attack" by Alex Spillius, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 15, 2011.

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• There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Together, Mystery, Clue

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• If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.

  Derek Sivers

  Motivation, Inspiration, Political

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• It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

  Jacques Audiard

  Moving, Chance, Film

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• Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts
  And damn it feels good to be a gangsta!

  Willie D

  Rap, Gangsta, Feel Good

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• Cause we they leaders, and they the followers
  And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'

  Kanye West

  Hip Hop, Leader, Causes

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• The only difference between the women I've dated and Charles Manson is that Manson has the decency to look like a nut case when you first meet him.

  Richard Jeni

  Differences, Looks, Firsts

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• Swimming in my Daddy's big nuts

  Grand Puba

  Swimming, Daddy, Hip Hop

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• For us to get to those huts and no one's home, it's going to be a kick to the nuts.

  Joe Teti

  Home, Survival, Kicks

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• I am a health nut and only do things that are good for my body.

  Miranda Kerr

  Body

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• Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

  Pauline Kael

  People

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

  Edward Abbey

  Fastidious, Fellows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Ak 47, Democracies Have

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• All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Sleep, Science, Men

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