Top 99 Bolt Quotes

My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key… and bolt the door at once.

Bolt put the Mobot on the map, to be honest with you! He’s just an amazing guy.

I fear we have shot our bolt – but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

I won’t say I’m the new Usain Bolt, I’m the new Christian Coleman.

This is the best thing that could’ve happened for the 2011 season – Bolt losing like this and having to go away.

I definitely look to people like Usain Bolt and Sanya Richards and especially Allyson Felix, being an American athlete who went pro right after high school. Of course I would like to replicate that career, but obviously as a 1500-meter runner.

I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.

Everybody talks about Bolt. Now they can talk about the ladies who are running some really wonderful times.

If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can’t be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.

Both the ‘Gregor’ series and ‘The Hunger Games’ are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With ‘The Hunger Games,’ the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.

Clearly Bolt would beat me over 100 metres on the track. But on grass, over 30 metres with a ball at my feet? I’m winning that race every time!

Pogba was our Usain Bolt – he allowed us to play in a certain way.

The uniformity of the earth’s life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

I remember going down the tunnel into the Olympic Stadium and getting a glimpse of all the people and hearing all the noise, all the people shouting for us. I’d seen Usain Bolt on the warm-up track, and then, as I walked into the stadium, I sort of realised how big it was!

I love Usain Bolt. When he’s in there, I can’t wait to watch him. Because you know he’s going to put on a show.

Sometimes it can be that a player is available and you can get them next month – wow, that’s a bolt of lightning – but it doesn’t happen that often, it really does vary.

A song is an emotional lightning bolt – a good one, anyway.

I like to watch the best in every sport, so definitely like Tom Brady or Tiger Woods, his comeback story, or even Usain Bolt. I look up to those guys just because they’re great.

Success is like a lightning bolt. It’ll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.

My favorite runner is Usain Bolt, who happens to be Jamaican and is the fastest man in the world.

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.

A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled.

Credit card issuers and HELOC lenders are like fair-weather friends: They cozy up to you in good times, but when the economy heads south, they abandon you faster than Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters.

My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

Speed isn’t everything, but he’d be a great striker at Atletico. Usain Bolt would be perfect for our game. Me behind and him up front. The best!

I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.

Clearly Bolt would beat me over 100 metres on the track. But on grass, over 30 metres with a ball at my feet? I’m winning that race every time!

Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the land; I’m the fastest man in mixed martial arts.

The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, ‘Cairo,’ sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

I’m not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.

And there are very few wild animals that can’t run down a human being; the big predators would run down Usain Bolt without even thinking about it. So your only chance is to stand your ground!

It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy’s last name is Bolt, and he’s the fastest man ever. You can’t write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be – a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, Justin Gatlin… to have my name up there with those types of guys is a blessing and a humbling feeling.

You take records with a pinch of salt. Take Usain Bolt: someone will be quicker than him one day. These things aren’t important.

Today, Jamaica is known because of just one man – Usain Bolt. Not many Indians have managed to reach the finals of track and field events at the Olympics and that says it all.

I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it’s a commercial, not that that’s a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it’s a commercial or a movie where I’m shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I’m doing a performance thing.

A song is an emotional lightning bolt – a good one, anyway.

As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that’s the lightning bolt moment.

These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

And there are very few wild animals that can’t run down a human being; the big predators would run down Usain Bolt without even thinking about it. So your only chance is to stand your ground!

I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy’s taking, he’s just taking one.

I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy’s taking, he’s just taking one.

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.

Robert Bolt’s storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.

I knew I would be running with so many people watching all over the world because of him. People love Bolt. He has many fans out there because of his great achievements and breaking world records in Olympics. I’ve done the same and it’s a great honour. I’m happy and I’m happy for him.

Success is like a lightning bolt. It’ll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.

Creativity hits me like a lightning bolt. For two weeks ideas overflow and spill from me, before a period of nothing. The prospect of it suddenly just leaving me one day scares me. I’m terrified that every song I write might be my last.

Motorists in London have got to be immensely careful of cyclists. At the same time, cyclists in London are too often unwilling to obey the road signs. I’ve seen regular examples of people who just bolt through red lights.

What kind of country just recycles its old money, reminisces about what used to be, and doesn’t know how to weld, to machine, to cast or to bolt things together? Not one that’s on a path to future greatness, that’s for certain.