Nutshell Quotes - page 2

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back. (Philip Yancey)
There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on. But if the above whipped your mind into a frenzy, here's something even more interesting: Fang started a blog. Not that he's self-absorbed or trendy or anything. Nope, not him. View quote
James Patterson
I would write, edit, rewrite and re-edit the text. However, I still felt that I was miles away from the ideal version of the story born and still alive in me. I ran towards it with all my might and when I thought I had finally captured it, it would slip away from me and disappear. It looked more like an everlasting vision of an oasis in the mind of the thirsty pilgrim wandering in the desert. Finally, I realised I would never be able to record it in a way that makes myself completely happy with it. I had felt this earlier, but did not want to acknowledge the feeling, I did not want to feel defeated. Now I know - unless the writer suffers, goes through difficulties and finally, feels beaten, like me; if he writes the way he himself wants to write, if he wins over the story, he is dead and finished, as a writer... So, in a nutshell, the writer faces the possibility to die after finishing each of his/her works. However, it is better not to use that possibility until the end... View quote
Miho Mosulishvili
I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography. View quote
Douglas Kirkland
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study. View quote
Robert Gottlieb
I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell. View quote
Sarah Shahi
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done. View quote
Zygmunt Bauman
That was putting the case in a nutshell. But it is one thing to put a case like Shelley's in a nutshell and another thing to keep it there. View quote
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten
Host: In a nutshell, is what happened Islamic or un-Islamic? Qaradhawi: The truth is that what happened is a reaction to these barbaric acts (in Abu Ghureib prison)...I say that the general atmosphere affects behavior... Even though Islam states that prisoners should be treated decently, there are those who allow killing a prisoner in certain circumstances. View quote
Yusuf Qaradawi
I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space. View quote
William Shakespeare
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. (William Shakespeare)
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting. View quote
Steven Spielberg
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page. View quote
Daniel Hannan
The question I should like to put to them is, in a nutshell, this: "Do you despise or do you respect mankind, you - its future saviours?" View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people–who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations–do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper, and there is where the harm lies."... "That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. View quote
Mark Twain