Quotes About Being Pumped

#1. A tear wells in his eye. It wells and then spills down his cheek. And despite being pumped with booze and coke, I can read that one eye as clearly as a billboard for cigarettes. Only instead of saying Alive with Pleasure it says, I Have to Go Now.

Augusten Burroughs

#2. On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge until I knew everything there was to know, all the past cultures picked clean like delicious roasted chicken.

Lauren Groff

#3. I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear.

Shailene Woodley

#4. But Bonnie refused to consider giving herself up. She told Clyde and the others that whenever he went down, she wanted to be with him.

Jeff Guinn

#5. The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#6. Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

Neil Patrick Harris

#7. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or art director says.
Like Tyler says, even a souffle looks pumped.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. I wish this knife was good for something besides death, that I could cut through time and walk into that house, into that kitchen where he trapped her, and get her out of there. I would make sure she had the future she should have had.

Kendare Blake

#9. I guess you just don't pay attention. I think you're too busy attempting to fade.

Rebecca Donovan

#10. Being around you was the sweetest torture. I wanted to touch you, hold you, kiss you. I wanted all of you." His shoulders slumped. "But I was afraid of what would happen if I gave in my desire. If I let myself love you.

Danielle L. Jensen

#11. The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole thing is insane. A girl will throw her bra onstage, and I say to myself, if I was the guy that pumped your gas today, would you throw your bra at me?

John Rzeznik

#12. Can you imagine, in a world so afraid of otherness, why this would be a danger to all peculiar-kind?

Ransom Riggs

#13. There is so much power at your fingertips! Use it!

Sadie Calvano

#14. The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

R. G. LeTourneau

#15. The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.

Bernd Heinrich

#16. To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Northrop Frye

#17. Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though the knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever?

Jodi Picoult

#18. Frank keeps massaging his gun, and something about the motion - gentle, almost, like he's willing it to life - makes me feel sick.

Lauren Oliver

#19. Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.

George Vecsey

#20. If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.

Jennifer Aniston

#21. I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.

Parker Palmer