Gumming It Quotes

#1. This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people to make bad decisions without seeing them as bad.

Steve Almond

#2. The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.

Zach Galifianakis

#3. Wait - something's gumming up Bosch. (Computers aren't as powerful as most people think; running even a small and rather stupid intern can really bog down a server.)

Charles Stross

#4. In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

Bobby Sherman

#5. I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

Woody Allen

#6. We didn't need dialogue; we had faces.' It's what Thurlow used to say on days they spent staring at their newborn. Ida on that play mat with the arches overhead, groping for toys, gumming the fur, and them on either side, on their stomachs, watching the world dilate in her eyes.

Fiona Maazel

#7. Stamp-collectors are a strange, silent fish-like breed, of all ages, but only of the male sex; women, apparently, fail to see the peculiar charm of gumming bits of coloured paper into albums.

George Orwell

#8. If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.

Suzanne Collins

#9. Feather to fire,fire to blood
Blood to bone,bone to marrow
Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow

Gregory Colbert

#10. Somewhere in hell Satan has just pulled out a bag of marshmallows and is roasting them in my honor.

Carian Cole

#11. I am a conduit of happiness and abundance. It comes to me effortlessly so I can give it away with love.

Debasish Mridha

#12. The wind was not invisible. It had a texture, as though it carried a weight of dust, the motes steadily gumming up her eyes and sealing her nose, finding its way into her underwear and up into her body by those routes too.

Clive Barker

#13. A metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

Max Black

#14. The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

Luke Evans

#15. The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Oscar Wilde