Quotes by Nuts I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. Orson Welles hatebusinessnuts 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." P. J. O'Rourke nutstwoyears 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. P. J. O'Rourke carnutsworld The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family. Patricia Richardson fightingnutsyears We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases. Patrick Hayden tolerancenutsamerica All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut. Paul Engle cakeblacknuts I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying. Paul Auster nutstwomean Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness. Paul Feig honestynutsdirty If some magic thing happens, and everybody goes completely nuts, and does something we never thought of, the cameras catch everything. That comes from having camera people who are almost like actors and writers themselves. Paul Feig magicnutspeople Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true. Paul Kane heydaynutsdream I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything. Paul Newman nutstryingwatches I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts. Paul Newman machinerynutswatches 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. Paul Saffo nutstwothinking 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. Paul Saffo communicationunderstandingnuts It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet. Paul Zindel nutstalkingthinking Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem. Paula Danziger pistachiosrednuts You know, I understand that a lot of people, especially up north, put fruits and nuts in their stuffing, which is good, but for myself personally, I love an old-timey savory dressing. Paula Deen up-northnutspeople Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do. Pauline Kael nutspeople It’s hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts. Pedro Noguera expertsnutsthinking My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character. Penny Marshall mothernutscharacter«1819202122232425262728»
