Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Let prayer be the key of the day, and the bolt of the night

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.

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.

Mary Shelley

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

Chuck Feeney

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.

Rachel Platten

When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

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.

I'm a little more relaxed than I was. My hold on the lead is in pretty good shape now. It would take a lightning bolt or something to stop me now.

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

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.

This recipe came to me like a lightning bolt out of the blue. I think it is a great way to enjoy well-known comfort foods with a unique and interesting twist.

Up until now, Schwab has been setting the pace in online brokerage. Merrill, though, is a bolt from the blue. Eight months ago, Merrill wasn't even in the online trading game. Merrill was held back only by the high cost of its online trading account.

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.

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.

Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The foul and hissing bolt of scorn; For with thy side shall dwell, at last, The victory of endurance born

Somebody shimmies up underneath there, takes a pair of bolt cutters, cuts the cable, tire falls to the ground, they slide it off and they're off with it.

These next two weeks will be the most important of FAU history. There has never been as much tension on this team as there is now. Every person on this squad needs to tighten the bolts down.

William Wordsworth

What are fears but voices airy?Whispering harm where harm is not.And deluding the unwaryTill the fatal bolt is shot!

William Wordsworth

What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!

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

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

The nuts and bolts are all in place, ... Getting runners knowledgeable about the event is just starting now.

Wilbur Ross

It's a horrible freak accident. Apparently, a lightning bolt struck the mine.

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

Stephen Fry

I could rent a room, paint it black, bolt on a few chains and call it my punishment room, Then have men in posing pouches in the background.

It's a way to wring the most out of the nuts and bolts and electrons.

Jeff Green

They'll strip everything out and go over it bolt by bolt, rivet by rivet.

Dick Vermeil

They hit him too many times, ... and that's a credit to those guys over on the other side of the line of scrimmage wearing that lightning bolt on their helmet. We just have to get better.

Dick Vermeil

They hit (Green) too many times, and that's a credit to the guys on the other side of the field wearing that lightning bolt on their helmet.