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Quotes About Nugget

the poor child there for hours (for he had the reptilian patience of an adult to whom time possesses no value except in proportion to what it might reveal, what meager nugget of truth it might suddenly cast up)
~ Joyce Carol Oates
At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.
~ James K. Morrow
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
~ Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.
~ Kelley Armstrong
The first rule of a successful parasite? Myxoma's success in Australia suggests something different from that nugget of conventional wisdom I mentioned above. It's not Don't kill your host. It's Don't burn your bridges until after you've crossed them.
~ David Quammen
Nugget? said Micah, offering a lump to Toby. Thanks, said Toby. He took a bite and chewed thoughtfully. I think maybe it is a squirrel. He said.
~ Ridley Pearson
Leo drummed his fingers. Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time." Hazel frowned. What is a chicken nugget?" Oh, man…" Leo shook his head in amazement. That's right. You've missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—" Doesn't matter," Annabeth interrupted.
~ Rick Riordan
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
~ Virginia Woolf
Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.
~ Jeru the Damaja
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
~ Ava Gardner
You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.
~ Matt Besser
For the record, even a turkey vulture won't eat a processed chicken nugget. I stopped buying them for my son when I saw the vultures picking around them.
~ Julie Zickefoose
There's nothing more tantalizing than looking at a flickering a film projected on a wall, trying to find details in the grainy shadows and digging through secret locked files and looking for evidence, looking for some nugget of information that's never been revealed before.
~ Stephen Fagin
I find campfire stories and urban legends are kind of the bread and butter that inspires a lot of people who are making horror and thriller. There is a nugget of truth behind these sort of cautionary tales.
~ Jordan Peele
Advice is the smallest current coin.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.
~ Annalee Newitz