Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Elliot

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

Bouwe Bekking

Chris Nicholson came up with a complicated but brilliant plan. Try to fix the ram with other bolts and hope that the seals inside are not too damaged.

George Will

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.

Brendan Taman

We're getting down to the nuts and bolts of it.

John Baxley

There's not a weld in this tank. It's all put together with bolts and rivets.

Herodotus

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.

Bob Hiester

There has been a lot of talk during the last three years, but it was just this year that we have people making a real push and getting down to the nuts and bolts of it.

Hal McRae

In a nutshell, offensively we're struggling. The nuts and bolts of what's going on - that's it. We're struggling.

Charlie Johnson

They're already flying so low, I can see the bolts holding their front wheels on.

Chris Farley

I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Eddie Van Halen

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

Abdul Qadeer Khan

I am not a madman or a nut.

Aaron Eckhart

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

Charles Stross

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

Akshay Kumar

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

David Cunliffe

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.

Dave Barry

The reason it's called "Grape Nuts" is that it contains "dextrose," which is also sometimes called "grape sugar," and also because "Grape Nuts" is catchier, in terms of marketing, than "A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel," which is what it tastes like.