Chewing gum Quote by Padgett Powell Download Open image ““jejune longing is the chewing gum of life.”” — Padgett Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chewing gum Life
“So much longing. So many lives filled with longing. It's what stories― all our stories― are made of. And what is longing made of… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“She wasn't actually chewing gum, but her demeanor was very much that of a gum chewer.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Misery is like a gamy piece of meat: not particularly nourishing, certainly not tasty, but still it’s something to chew on, and that’s better… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“I saw her chewing gum, when I was thirteen, and I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Our friend Chewy doesn’t speak much, but he chews a lot of tobacco so we call him Chewbacco.” — Michael Diack Copy Share Image
“One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that - chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“The thought of friends or family enjoying themselves in my absence gives me the heebie-jeebies.” — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs.… — padgett powell Copy Share Image
Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech, had been… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
Did they practice looking suspicious in mirrors? Welcome to the United States. Don’t even think about chewing gum the wrong way.’ (Carlos) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
“How can men be such lummoxes, such wads of chewing gum on our ballet slippers and still feel so good?” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going. — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Teacher:Why are you chewing gum in my class?!?! Me:Dude, chill, it's gum, not cocaine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Then I’ll hide all the scissors and chewing gum.” It made the entire room grow quiet before he looked over at me. “I know… — Amber L. Johnson Copy Share Image
“(When chlorophyll chewing gum came into fashion two decades later, it was that colour.)” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter… — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes… TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
