Bolt Quotes

125 quotes by 117 authors

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice. — Usain Bolt
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear… — John Ciardi
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. — Robert Redford
The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison. — Charles Spurgeon
Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless… — Barbara Brown Taylor
You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him. — Bill Walton
To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp… — Annie Dillard
My first poem was a bolt from the blue â€¦ it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. â€¦ it filled me with soul… — William Carlos Williams
There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me. — Maurice Sendak
A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined… — Jim Butcher
I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by… — Agnes Varda
Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,… — Thomas Dunn English
There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair… — Kenneth Grahame
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute… — Patricia J. Williams
Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !. — Warren G. Harding
As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and… — Warren G. Harding
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist… — Henri Matisse
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community,… — Paul Flory
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and… — Chuck Close
It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement. — Shigeo Shingo

Who Wrote These Bolt Quotes

117 authors contributed a total of 125 Bolt Quotes, led by these top contributors: