Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brendan Taman

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

Suzanne Collins

Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.

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.

Hugh Johnson

We might get blindsided by some (hedge fund) announcement that nobody's anticipating, ... You worry about another big bolt out of the blue.

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.

Mark Zupan

I said, 'Don't bolt it down. That's gonna come up in no time. We'll kick this thing in six months.' And then it's six months, and you're going up the ramp, and I'm still in the chair, and it doesn't look like I'm going to be running any marathons.

Willie Geist

My routine is to ride that snooze button as far as it will take me, take a quick shower, get dressed in the dark and bolt out the door.

Kevin Adams

He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come.

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.

Caitlin Fitzgerald

I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.

Natalie Appleton

The other reason is because I'm a masochistic freak

Bela Lugosi

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

Chauncey Billups

Watching him is unbelievable. The kid is a freak of nature.

Jason Johnson

Freaky things happen, and it seems like it's been happening to us lately,

Ken Henderson

From all our indications, this was just a freak accident. Nobody ever thought this would happen (with the open windows).

Reggie Lee

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

Buddy Bell

He's done it before, he understands situations. He doesn't freak out.

Glen Murray

There are sharks everywhere, obviously. But I've never seen one while I was surfing. It's an unwritten rule that we don't talk about it. If you're going to go out on the water worried about that, you're going to freak out. You shouldn't be out there if you're thinking about sharks.

Tim Read

What a horrible way to go. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

Sean Bergenheim

We were horrible in the first two periods. We played a little better in the third. I know I had a horrible game.

Marcel Shipp

The red zone has just been horrible for us. It's been terrible. It's unacceptable as an offense because we have too many weapons and we're too talented not to get in the end zone.

Tom Wolfe

If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.

Edgar Allan Poe

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

Danielle Taylor

She has horrible rages over nothing. She needs help. She needs to talk to somebody.

Ken Tutt

We didn't want to go through what we went through last year. It was a horrible feeling. I would say that has been in the back of my mind this whole season. Every time I went in the gym, I just thought about that loss.

Michael Young

I think there is a horrible stereotype that suggests that minorities are lacking in terms of their knowledge of the fundamentals of baseball.

Louis Cataldie

I don't want people being alarmed, ... I don't want inflated numbers. My God, it's horrible enough.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Avicenna

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

William Shakespeare

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Mike Utley

The problem with lightning is, it kills 10 percent of the people it strikes. The 90 percent that live wish they didn't.

Jack Straw

The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent,

Billie Joe Armstrong

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Harry Harrison

So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.