Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Kenny Perry

I'm just excited to be the defending champion. I'm going to be nervous knowing that Tommy Bolt and Lee Trevino are going to be at the Champions Dinner. I'll have to work on something to liven up the party.

Wilbur Ross

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

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.

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

This is not to say that nuts and bolts contractors are at a disadvantage, ... But if you look at long-term trends, there will need to be more refurbishing of a lot of equipment so I've been increasingly looking towards tech-slanted defense contractors.

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.

It's quite enlightening to pick up four bolts with a gloved hand.

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

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.