Guy Gavriel Kay

The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail.

Canadian Author

Sissy Spacek

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.

American Actress

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.

American Musician

Robert Green

You take records with a pinch of salt. Take Usain Bolt: someone will be quicker than him one day. These things aren't important.

English Athlete

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.

American Businessman

Walter Scott

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Scottish Novelist

Jody Watley

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Indian Leader

Mary Gauthier

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

John Lithgow

I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

American Actor

Used often in construction, mechanics, or DIY conversations.

Mechanical Context

'Bolt' is similar to 'screw,' but requires a nut to fasten, unlike screws.

Not a Screw

To 'bolt' implies a quick, often unexpected, exit or movement.

Sudden Departure

Often indicates a reaction to fear or urgency, rather than leisure.

Fear or Urgency

Used in weather reports or discussions about storms.

Meteorology Term

Describes the unexpected, bright nature of the lightning phenomenon.

Sudden and Bright

Implies impatience or haste, often considered impolite.

Eating Quickly

A 'bolt' can refer to standard lengths of materials for sewing or crafts.

Fabric Measurement

Concerns safety; often done before leaving the house or going to bed.

Security Action

To 'bolt' is to slide a metal bar; different from turning a key to 'lock'.

Not Locking

 I couldn't use my locker for weeks because the bolt on the lock reminded me of the one I had put on my lips when the homeless man on the corner looked at me with eyes up merely searching for an affirmation that he was worth seeing. I was more concerned with touching the screen on my Apple than actually feeding him one. When the woman at the fundraising gala said "I'm so proud of you.

The danger of silence PIPE...

 I damage them right now I can't let that stop me I know there's gold in there and I don't care what I have to do to get it I am not liking life I'm not liking this project there's not much I'm liking right now I've been wanting to do this for so long and I can't believe that it's bolts that are keeping me from my dream

Bolts of Despair PIPE...

 takes you for a ride because the farm decides when you can take the day off like when it's raining or the farm decides how quickly something's going to bolt or how well it's going to Germany like you can help play into those factors but you have to just let it go it doesn't really even feel like you're

The Call of the Land:...

 to help him stop them. Sensing danger, the moon goddess jumped from the canoe into the water below and transformed into a crab. But the storm god had already thrown a lightning bolt, which hit the crab and pierced her through her heart, killing her.

The myth of the moon...

 and this was the end of my running career I was devastated this was the destruction of my dream I mean I had to draw a picture of what I was going to do with my life that would have been a skinny black girl with corner of lightning bolts preparing

Re-envision what it...

 birth may provide answers high-speed cameras can shoot up to thousands of frames per second but even these cameras miss the instant of a lightning bolts creation Tim has one of the only cameras in the world fast enough to capture this

Capturing the Birth of a...

 she claimed that she could make Talos immortal in exchange for removing the bolt. Medea's promise resonated deep within his core. Unaware of his own mechanical nature, and human enough to long for eternal life, Talos agreed.

The Greek myth of Talos,...

 Here, you can see my 24 sensors, six microprocessors and muscle-tendon-like actuators. I'm basically a bunch of nuts and bolts from the knee down. But with this advanced bionic technology, I can skip, dance and run.

How we'll become cyborgs...

 The calves were bulky blocks of metal with pipes bolted together for the ankles and a yellow rubber foot with a raised rubber line from the toe to the ankle to look like a vein.

Amy Purdy: Living beyond...

 just bolt as far as the eye can see into the distance our route takes us in some pretty rough terrain