Nuts Quotes
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Off to bed. If squirrels take over in the night, I, for one, welcome our new bushy-tailed scampering overlords, and I know where the nuts are.
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More Nuts Quotes
We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, flesh food is not the right food for God's people.
ellen g. white— Vol. 9, p. 159
Subconsciously every one was, of course, fearful that he himself would go nutseveryone with the exception of those who had already gone nuts, who were in the wholly pleasant situation of having no fear.
— 1922 The Enormous Room, ch.5.
Science fiction, like Brazil, is where the nuts come from.
Thomas Disch— In the Observer, 23 August 1987
They're from the guy who snipped my nuts.
bill allred— Radio From Hell (November 17, 2005)
If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
lance armstrong— ET Magazine (2004) This needs further date citation, as the article designated has not yet been located.
Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.
max barry— Great Writing interview
Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?
joseph heller— As quoted in "Heller's legacy will be 'Catch-22' ideas" at CNN (13 December 1999)
Progress … has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
Karl Kraus— “In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), pp. 73-74
When you are posthumous it is cold and darkand that is why patriots are a bit nuts in the head
Roger McGough— "Why Patriots are a Bit Nuts in the Head", from The Mersey Sound (1967)
I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but e.g. to 2,500 similar nuts who would be moreover described by the media as good scientists, if not the best ones in the world. ;-) Good for him that he managed to die in time.
luboš motl— [6]
It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.
bruce perens— [Innovation Goes Public]
Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we're going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America.
carl rowan— April 25, 1995 Washington Post.
For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15th will be Tax Day, but in our fourth story tonight: It's going to be teabagging day for the right-wing and they’re going nuts for it.
david shuster— Countdown With Keith Olbermann, 2009 -YouTube video [2]
Michael Steele is nuts.
david shuster— 11:23 PM - 26 Mar 09
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
john steinbeck— Ch. 4, p. 72
The planet, hell! What about my nuts?
david suzuki— Rick and David Suzuki get rescued, Rick Mercer Report, Feb 20 2007, in reply to Mercer's attempt to get him to jump into a frozen lake "for the planet".
A serious ape whom none take seriously, Obliged in this fool 's world to earn his nuts By hard buffoonery.
george eliot— Book 1 (The Spanish Gypsy (1868))
If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!
eminem— "Insane". (Relapse (2009))
There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. [...] The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, "We're not perfect, but they're nuts."
barney frank— From his keynote speech at the Maine People's Alliance 30th anniversary Rising Tide awards dinner, June 9, 2012, held at Woodford's Congregational Church in Portland.Quoted in Koenig, Seth (June 10, 2012). "Barney Frank tackles gay marriage, defense spending in Portland speech". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved on 2012-06-11.
Children are different mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.
jean kerr— "Children Really are Not People," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957
"Mr McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years, Anyone [in his place] would go nuts."
vladimir putin— Response to John McCain's tweet "Dear Vlad, The Arab Spring is coming to a neighbourhood near you." [28]
For oh, 'twas nuts to the Father of Lies, (As this wily fiend is named in the Bible) To find it settled by Laws so wise That the greater the truth, the worse the libel.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, A Case of Libel, Odes on Cash, Corn, etc; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
Before green apples blush, before green nuts embrown, why, one day in the country is worth a month in town.
christina rossetti— Summer. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Corn nuts!
— Who: Heather Chandler
— Source: Heathers
— Note: Said before dying from being served drain cleaner.
You wouldn't believe
On All Hallow Eve
What lots of fun we can make,
With apples to bob,
And nuts on the hob,
And a ring-and-thimble cake.
— All Hallow Eve, as quoted in "Seasons of Witchery: Celebrating the Sabbats with the Garden Witch", by Ellen Dugan.
nuts!
Anthony McAuliffe— 1944 Replying to the German demand for surrender at Bastogne, Belgium, 23 Dec. His response was reported in this form in the NewYork Times, 28 Dec; the original may have been more explicit.
nuts!
— Who: Garybrandy
— Source: Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
— Note: Fails to stop self-destruction of Babel 13.
