Lumps Quotes

49 quotes by 46 authors

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now,… — Sandra Cisneros
He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor… — Flann O'Brien
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. — B. C. Forbes
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board. — Edward Alsworth Ross
Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when… — Kristen Bell
The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy… — Steven Pinker
The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching… — Douglas Coupland
An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it. — Emily Post
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just… — Gilbert Highet
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us… — Rodney Brooks
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a… — Galway Kinnell
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck… — Bertrand Russell
Love seems to be the appreciation that we are all little lumps in the same earthly soup which is a little lump in a larger… — Ken Dychtwald
I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down. — Suzy Parker
Who can fail to mist at Fergie's anthem, 'My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps.' Hmmm. 'My lunch, my lunch, I swear it's coming… — Celia Rivenbark
I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You… — R. C. Lehmann
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like… — H.G. Wells
And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that… — Steven Millhauser
Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks,… — Harold Geneen

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