Mark Haddon

I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.

English Novelist

Olivia Colman

In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

English Actress

David Oyelowo

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

English Actor

Ayesha Curry

Being able to sprawl out on the bed and wear my face mask and put my hair up in my bonnet, honestly, it's nice to have those moments sometimes.

Canadian Actress

Tony Fernandes

My whole life has always been about looking for that person that money can't buy in that they've got a bee in their bonnet.

Malaysian Businessman

Anna Paquin

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Michael Korda

The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.

Jane Fallon

I have always had a bee in my bonnet about being seen to do things for myself.

English Author

Andrew Davies

People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.

British Writer

Romola Garai

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

Remember, 'bonnet' is mainly used in the UK for the car part Americans call 'hood'.

UK Specific

'Bonnet' refers to the car's exterior, not the interior parts or the boot/trunk.

Automotive Context

A bonnet as a hat has a vintage or 'old-fashioned' feel and is less common nowadays.

Fashion Accessory

Historically, bonnets are associated with women and young children rather than men.

Gendered Usage

In engineering, 'bonnet' is a technical term often off-limits for casual conversation.

Technical Term

'Bonnet' in Scotland refers to traditional headwear and has cultural significance.

Cultural Dress

Wearing a Scottish bonnet can represent pride in one's Scottish heritage.

Scottish Identity

 they could use you as a vantage point because cheats are habituated to people very very quickly and they would jump on the bonnet that's all the hood I believe it's known as that's very dangerous and it's it's highly highly and its behavior that should not be encouraged because first of all it's interfering with the

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 noises I said no squeaking noise say his eyes just lit up and he said don't worry I'll have it back to you in an hour and sure enough an hour later he brought it back and it was no longer squeaking so what it was I don't know but he knew how to fix it he also fixed stop Oh bonnet cables so

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 in a lot of parades. And you here, you told me you are wearing a war bonnet, you have, you said it's called a lance, correct? That's a lance I'm holding, yeah. And you also have the war bridle -tell me-- -And the war bridle you got to be a pretty experienced rider to

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 fruit cart unattended for just a single moment these bonnet macaques pounce on it like hungry ants at a company picnic those of you with very young children will recognize this kind of eating behavior so many peanuts so little time then bananas well naturally oranges

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 where the beginning of their bankruptcy was publicly announced. And in order to avoid immediate imprisonment, they had to wear a green bonnet so that everyone knew they were a failure. Of course, these are extreme examples. But it is important to remember

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 leopard jumping on the bonnet literally spraying the student sitting on the bonnet so he will never forget it he will probably never be closer to a leopard and he'll probably remember that smell for the rest of his life as well on these

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 excuse me do you have an adult present see this is this is the problem this is why we can't you're gonna get scared when I start up hello it's basically that the bonnet then it's gonna get a very big scare no okay no we have to go

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 summer bonnets are greeting that were born amines I see you and by seeing you I bring you into being and in the workshops sometimes what I do is I'll stop people and I cue them and I say Sabha Boehner and all I'm doing is I'm

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 found over there the wipers on the windshield because we always tilt the windshield in on the bonnet Paula I'm very careful Paula and always very good to hear your name and hopefully Paula you can see I have my

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 mackay acts love to monkey around here in southern india when a peddler leaves our fruit cart unattended for just a single moment these bonnet macaques