“I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.” KindBigsKeysNutsGeekTempoThings I LoveMusicality Author:Thomston
“When you're a teenager with a creative mind, be as creative as possible. I'd rather you go nuts. Having more ideas is always better.” MindIdeasCreativeTeenagerNutsCreative Mind Author:Christian Siriano
“The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.” IfsEnergyTechnologyDoorsOne DayClaimsIncrediblesNutsWrapsDescendantsSlamGranddaughterGrand DaughterWormholes Author:Michio Kaku
“I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.” HumanityActingNutsExploringGorgeous Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“Superhero creators who engage in deconstruction fall into two categories: There are the guys who do it because it's easy, because it gets an audience reaction if you point out that superheroes must be a bunch of psychotic nuts. And there are the guys who do it because they're actually interested, and they're trying to get at what's going on underneath. They're interested in the process and the results.” IfsTryingTwoGuyFallEasyProcessResultsAudienceCreatorReactionsBunchCategoriesNutsSuperheroPsychoticDeconstruction Author:Kurt Busiek
“I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.” WorldDifferentCharacterBigsBitsForgetPartyWifeOrdinarySurpriseMy WifeAssNutsBlairOrdinary WorldSurprise Party Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.” GunNutsGrainCrow Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.” TryingWould BeRealizingBreakFeetFieldsGunHorseSticksScaredLegsHolesStreamsNutsAdsHog Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.” MenLooksStillsReasonProblemSeemsMightAmericaBornFocusYouthPeriodsRacismGood ThingsLook UpOld ManNutsVietnamFondnessHeyday Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of biology - that's 4 percent of the universe. We got to the moon on the 4 percent we do understand. We landed on Mars on the 4 percent we do understand. So the day we crack the nut of the rest of that 95 percent... Oh my gosh.” LawUniverseMoonElementsPercentTablesBiologyCracksChemistryNutsMarsNewtonOh My GoshPeriodic TableNewton's Laws Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Hillary Clinton would say I'm going to fund a program that will find the local, you know, industrial or manufacturing jobs that are available and train you to do that job. And then you're going to get that job. And it's a much more of a nuts and bolts sort of policy vision.” KnowsJobsVisionPolicyProgramTrainClintonAvailableLocalsFundNutsManufacturingBoltsNuts And Bolts Author:George Packer
“If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.” IfsWorldWholeShowsCarAreasWhole WorldLos AngelesNutsShow BusinessSatellites Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."” IfsKnowsYearsTwoEnoughUseFoundHoursGoneFourCostThousandYears AgoDollarsKillingHolesTensionWheelsTwo YearsBuriedWarningNutsWireManualsMoronBucketsTippingKilling YourselfOvalTwo Years AgoTractorsTorque Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“If you become a chef because you're obsessed by becoming a celebrity, getting my ass kicked and working my nuts off the way I did in France and getting pushed around those kitchens wasn't about becoming famous.” IfsWayBecomingAssFranceObsessedKitchenNutsChefBecoming Famous Author:Gordon Ramsay
“I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.” PeopleWayLooksStatesTogetherSoundChurchRolesRightsMovementCivil RightsDriversNutsCivil Rights Movement Author:Duncan Green
“I typically get around to most major cities at least once a year. I think people see that as their chance to go nuts for the year if they're into the style of music.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsChanceCitiesStyleMajorsNuts Author:Girl Talk
“David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.” GayBaseballChiefsEditorsNutsNew Yorkers Author:Kevin Sessums
“In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed... the gig is the party for me now.” StillsHardWholeStuffWaitingPartyBloodTwentiesNutsGigsOld Days Author:James Taylor
“It would be kind of magical if we were just happening to be able to see right to some boundary and then something crazy happened beyond that, like galaxies ceased to exist. I mean, that just seems nuts.” IfsKindMeanSeemsWould BeAbleHappenedCrazyHappeningsBoundariesBe KindNutsGalaxy Author:Janna Levin
“I'm quite insufferable about fitness, I suppose. I think it's really important, though I'm not a body nut.” ThinkingImportantBodyNutsInsufferable Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born we are all marked for demise, is already much alive, as is the awareness that the hard nut we must urgently crack is not the presence of "too many poor", but "too many rich".” HardFoundBornPoorRichAliveAwarenessPeriodsCracksNutsDemise Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.” SometimesHouseCuttingSpeedInsanityNutsFreakSheerLoadedBoltsNuts And Bolts Author:George Carlin
“I became a radio nut. I loved the afternoon serials, and I got into jazz through the radio. I had a subscription to Down Beat when I was 12. And I'd spend a lot of time in front of the minor, miming records.” RecordsFrontsBeatsJazzRadioAfternoonNutsMinorsSerialsSubscription Author:George Carlin
“Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you've got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there's no use even trying. You have to love it, and I do. You just hope it strikes a spark somewhere in the critical mass of public opinion and helps some people to resist further the seductions of political and corporate advertising.” PeopleTryingHelpingUseFacesPoliticalCertainFightingOpinionWillingBattleMassBlueDetailsCriticalStrikesAdvertisingCorporateSparksNutsBiasUnfairSeductionPublic OpinionAccusingCritical Mass Author:Bill Moyers
“My car was broken into four times before it was stolen. That can drive you nuts - the repetition. I'd wake up every morning and put on my jeans over my pajamas to run down and see if my car was still on the street. That's not a pleasant way to live.” IfsWayStillsRunningMorningFourStreetsCarBrokenWake UpDown AndPleasantNutsEvery MorningRepetitionJeansStolenWay To LivePajamas Author:Charles Schumer
“If I could've picked a birthday it would've been on Halloween. Yeah, it's always been my favorite holiday. Not because it was my birthday, but actually because, I think it was the freedom, you know? When you were a little kid, you got to go out and be an adult for a couple of hours. You got to, like, just go out with your friends and knock on peoples' doors and be nuts and pull pranks and stuff like that. You could be whoever you wanted to be, you know, I guess that was the appeal to it.” IfsThinkingKnowsLittlesKidsWantedStuffHoursDoorsCoupleAdultsYeahMy FavoriteAppealsIf I CouldHolidayNutsBe YouHalloweenLittle KidMy BirthdayPranks Author:Frank Iero
“[Carnival Ride] is part of a line from my favorite song on the album, "Wheel of the World." It sums up everything that's happened to me. It's nuts to think of where I was a couple of years ago.” ThinkingWorldYearsSongLinesHappenedCoupleYears AgoMy FavoriteAlbumsWheelsNutsFavorite SongCarnivalsCarnival Rides Author:Carrie Underwood
“Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.” WorldFallThreeWindShotsBuiltTeenagerNutsThree ThingsColumnsFalling Off Author:John Oliver
“I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.” PeopleLittlesWantedUsedSongBoysMinutesMusicianGuitarThirtyNutsLittle Boys Author:Steve Young
“I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so sometimes I'll get a little bit nuts if I write something I know is good a certain way, and some editor because of some restriction he has and wants to change it that I know is going to make it less funny that'll piss me off and then I'm inclined to go, "Well, hey I've been doing this a long time, maybe you should..." That doesn't happen that often, but I'm more likely to say that now than I would have been a long time ago. Because dammit, I'm infallible!” IfsKnowsWayWantFeelsShouldWritingWellsLittlesLongHas BeensSometimesHappensCertainBitsLittle BitLong TimeHeyEditorsNutsPublishingLong Time AgoRestrictionInfallible Author:Dave Barry
“National chauvinism is a very tough nut to crack, since a vast propaganda network is in place to keep the workers whipped up into a patriotic frenzy. Maybe this will change, but I doubt it unless it is addressed.” DoubtToughWorkersPropagandaPatrioticCracksNutsFrenzyChauvinism Author:Michael Yates
“Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn't seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He's nuts about kids and loves justice.” ThinkingHomeSeemsKidsJesusJusticeLandAnd LoveLawyerNuts Author:Bob Goff
“One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time. What would be the first thing I'd add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that's what I do. Then what's the next thing? And I'd say, well, loving people. And then the next.” PeopleTryingFirstsWellsLittlesMightWould BeSchoolNextJesusSpeakBitsSoundRealizingAnswersClearOne ThingMonthsLittle BitAddSundayZeroNutsDeckSunday SchoolEtch A Sketch Author:Bob Goff
“I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first choice is to run to the golf course if the weather is nice.” IfsFirstsBookRunningChoicesThreeCoursesHoursNiceGolfWeatherNutsFanaticsGolfersGolf CourseOpen Book Author:Thomas Friedman
“Every new thing upsets people. We all know someone that has a teenage kid who sits in the room and the television is on, their iPod is on, they have the computer on and at least three other electronic devices going while they're doing their homework. It drives the dad nuts, but he can't complain because the kid's a 4.1 (GPA) student.” PeopleKnowsKidsThreeRoomsStudentsTelevisionDadComputerComplainingUpsetDevicesNutsNew ThingsTeenageHomeworkIpodsElectronic DevicesGpa Author:Paul Saffo
“I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and that what you know where to get." The tools help the latter, and that's what keeps us from going nuts. The sense of overload comes from the gap between that sudden jump in volume (of information) and the tools we have to make sense of it.” ThinkingKnowsWorldKindSaidTwoHelpingInformationThis WorldToolsMake SenseLatterGapsNutsVolumeJohnsonOverload Author:Paul Saffo
“More information and more communications foster world peace and understanding. But connecting extremist nut cases together on the Web - whatever flavor extremism they are - is a really bad thing. More information may not be a good thing, either.” WorldMayTogetherUnderstandingCasesInformationCommunicationGood ThingsBad ThingsNutsFlavorConnectingExtremismExtremist Author:Paul Saffo
“It's nuts that we've reached a situation where representing female characters - let alone minorities - is considered "social responsibility" and not, you know, depicting half the world's population. I often feel like the gaming audience is so much more diverse than the characters represented in the games that they play.” KnowsWorldFeelsPlayCharacterGamesSocialHalfResponsibilitySituationAudienceFemalePopulationMinoritiesNutsDiverseSocial ResponsibilityRepresentingFemale CharactersGaming Author:Neil Druckmann
“A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.” BelieveLiteratureNutsFanatics Author:Dean Koontz
“I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.” ThinkingShouldMeanCommonCommon SenseNutsBillionaireBuffettTreasurer Author:Stephen Baldwin
“I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'” WritingLongFunLong TimeHaving FunNutsLong Time Ago Author:Elmore Leonard
“They've said 'Roseanne's nuts' for years, and now I'm going to make that a reality - I'm all about nuts now, macadamia nuts!” YearsSaidRealityNuts Author:Roseanne Barr
“When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.” WinningBasketballLosingNutsEccentric Author:Al McGuire
“If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.” IfsKnowsLongDown AndHeyCupsTeaNutsWeekendCups Of TeaHey YouSkydivingLong Weekend Author:Rick Mercer
“I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.” IfsTwoNightWeekNuts Author:Dominic Monaghan
“I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.” PeopleThinkingIntenseNutsPantsEsotericSmarties Author:Alanis Morissette