Rivets Quotes

#1. If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

Ted Danson

#2. People say they want shorter, but really want something that rivets them. They've got endless time for great.

Bob Lefsetz

#3. A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

William Shakespeare

#5. What rivets me to history is seeing / acts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, / look back on us in mercy where we failed ourselves, / see us not one-dimensional but with / the past as your steadying and corrective lens.

Adrienne Rich

#6. Carrying that lumber the forty meters from the forest had left his knuckles blistered, his underarms sopping, but now a few hours of flames had lifted what had taken him months to design, weeks to carry, days to build, all but the nails and rivets, all but the hinges and bolts, all into the sky.

Anthony Marra

#7. Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Orson Scott Card

#8. A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

Walter Bagehot

#9. Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

John Burroughs

#10. Believe me, once you have tasted worship - the kind of worship that captures your heart and rivets your full attention on the living Lord - nothing less satisfies. Nothing else even comes close. Once you have tasted true worship, you will never want to play church again.

Charles R. Swindoll

#11. What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp.

Judith Ivory

#12. They fix attention, heedless of your pain,
With oaths like rivets forced into the brain;
And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout,
They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.

William Cowper

#13. The difference between science fiction and fantasy ... is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

Orson Scott Card

#14. I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

Margaret Halsey

#15. Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

#16. Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#17. Yet I was wound up. I tick. I exist. I am poised eighteen inches over the black rivets you are reading, I am in your place, I am shut in a bone box and trying to fasten myself on the white paper. The rivets join us together and yet for all the passion we share nothing but our sense of division.

William Golding

#18. I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

Dane Cook

#19. Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Christopher Lasch

#20. Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

Horace

#21. We take turns being smart for each other; I think it's part of the job description of being a couple.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#22. You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.

Ash Gray

#23. I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

Carmen Electra

#24. Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#25. There are other options that no one ever told you about. These are things mom and dad never explained to you; your teachers didn't know; they weren't enlightened. They weren't luminous beings that stood out of time and space.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres ... quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and heroes. An original, that's the person to astonish and to rule.

Jean Cocteau

#27. I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone ... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

Jo Brand

#28. I'm going to give you the memory of a rainbow.

Lois Lowry

#29. It's incredible," she says, "how much damage everyone does to everybody else.

Nina LaCour

#30. No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.

Nancy Farmer

#31. Life is long and dumb and devastating. People should believe whatever they need to believe to get by.

Katie Coyle

#32. I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.

Charlotte Rampling