I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door." ( : CCXVII, March 31, 1945)
I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.
A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
Tanner Bolt: Whatever they found, I think it's safe to assume that it is very bad.
Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it.
That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.
I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.
Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.
I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world;...
There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.
Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
Truth be told, there wasn't a single one of them who didn't deserve a lightning bolt from the Almighty. Everything else was straight mercy.
A good trap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment. It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects what’s coming, they’ll bolt.
Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.
