Bolted Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable…
— George Orwell
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Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy…
— Rudy Rucker
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
— William Cowper
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It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday:…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the…
— Arthur Machen
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Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with…
— William Shakespeare
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Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
— Johann Lamont
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From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Of course, sweetie," his mom said. "We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you and you're so…
— John Green
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The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide…
— Shannon Hale
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But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at…
— Erma Bombeck
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get…
— Yann Martel
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Can I…I mean, do you mind if I sleep up here? If you don't, I, um, understand. I just—" "Yes." The word bolted out of…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Yeah, and so Max and Dylan are supposed to, like, go to Germany and have kids together," I heard Gazzy say. My eyes popped open…
— James Patterson
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All I know is, he found out you left and he locked himself in the shed and barricaded the door. No one's seen him since,"…
— Kate Brian
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Bout time," she huffed, but her voice sounded thick and emotional too."I was at the hospital all day yesterday, but they wouldn't let me see…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters…
— Lisa Kleypas
Who Wrote These Bolted Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 27 Bolted Quotes, led by these top contributors: