Gumming Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

Meg Ryan

#8. But whatever fate may be mine, I shall not simply say yes to whatever it sends! she vowed stubbornly. If it is not to my liking ... then it is not my fate.

Mercedes Lackey

#9. I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

Werner Herzog

#10. I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

Steve Vai

#11. Know that I loved you. Know that it was not enough.

Leigh Bardugo

#12. Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?

Arlo Guthrie

#13. There's nothing wrong with being afraid. Everyone feels fear. But the day you let your fear control you is the day you stop living.

Samantha Towle

#14. Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.

Charlotte Armstrong

#15. Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World.

John Maynard Keynes

#16. If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple.

Nicolas Anelka

#17. Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

Robert Anton Wilson