Top 100 Quotes About Chunks
#1. There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.
Pete McCarthy
#3. There was a sound like a garbage bag of pudding dropped off a tall building onto a sidewalk. Robert had erupted, chunks slapping off the walls in every direction.
David Wong
#4. Crusted bloodstains marred the carpet everywhere, with chunks of matted gore thrusting from their centers, like ebony volcanoes oozing rivers of tissue. A
Joe Hart
#5. First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.
The Notorious B.I.G.
#6. Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.
David Wellington
#7. I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time.
Devon Aoki
#8. We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.
Mona Simpson
#9. We may have been crazed, strange and entirely too eager to find new things to have sex with - but we went out to preserve great chunks of this planet's cultures and we damned well did it with some style
Warren Ellis
#10. If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
Karl Pilkington
#11. I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
Damon Galgut
#12. I don't know, Pepper. I have large chunks of my childhood missing thanks to her and her Benadryl supply.
Mercy Celeste
#13. Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o - Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask.
Rick Riordan
#14. Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.
Mike Davidson
#15. There were piles of tailings and chunks of concrete studded with rebar around the oil rig, which continued to bob its head up and down as if it knew the sad ways of the world, as if depressedly resigned to what was happening, as if saying: 'Of course. Of course.
Hugh Howey
#16. They toasted each other, then after she sipped hers, she ate some of the bisque - creamy, a little buttery, with lots of big chunks of lobster and a hint of garlic. It was so good that she asked him for the recipe. He gave it to her and added," But I'll fix it for you anytime.
Terry Spear
#17. Memories are jagged little rocks, sharp little chunks of glass, and your mind is mud. Memories sink into it, and you think they've disappeared. But they haven't. They're just lying there, waiting for a hot day when certain parts of the mud melt and make those blades available to questing feet.
Luke Smitherd
#18. Georgie never thought she'd be old enough to talk about life in big decade-long chunks like this.
Rainbow Rowell
#19. He had a Cro-Magnon forehead, a weak jaw, sagging jowls. Chunks of his cheeks looked like they had been bitten away by rodents. He could have been smiling and looked like a gargoyle.
S.M. Reine
#20. Why so many of us knocked us major chunks of our brains with alcohol from time to time remains an interesting mystery. It may be that we were tring to give evolution a shove in the right direction - in the direction of smaller brains.
Kurt Vonnegut
#21. And when our sun explodes and we are all destroyed, we'll be rocks and chunks of I am not sure what, and maybe we'll rain down on somewhere else.
Joey Comeau
#22. Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.
Wayne McGregor
#23. The airliner-sized dragon blew apart in a monumental spray of blood and pulp. Great chunks of flesh the size of boulders rained down from the sky.
"The empire is striking back," Ambassador Syme observed, peering out the window beside CJ.
Matthew Reilly
#24. Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.
Larisa Alexandrovna
#25. Does your friend ever say anything?' the fat man asked. Aloom set down the piece of bread he had just rolled round several chunks of meat and gave an exasperated sigh.
'I heard him say oops! once, when he cut the ears off someone who was asking too many questions.
John Flanagan
#26. The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.
Sylvia Plath
#27. It was the final, explosive demonstration of summer, the line in the sand, a desperate attempt to hold fall forever at bay. But autumn nibbled the blue sky with its teeth, tore off chunks of the sun, smudged out that heavy veil of meat-smelling smoke.
Lauren Oliver
#28. The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.
John Redwood
#29. Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
Jacqueline Leo
#30. On each of two porches lie big chunks of serpentine - smooth as talc, mottled black and green. When you see rocks like that on a porch, a geologist is inside.
John McPhee
#31. I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when I'm competing.
Joel Parkinson
#32. We'd pass icebergs floating in the middle of the ocean. They were gigantic, with strange formations carved into them. They were so haunting and majestic you could feel your heart break, but really they're just chunks of ice and they mean nothing.
Maria Semple
#33. Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency.
Dave Barry
#34. Newer, faster, or more versatile components were always being released, so I was constantly spending large chunks of my meager income on upgrades.
Ernest Cline
#35. What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.
Sybille Bedford
#36. We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
Mitchell Baker
#37. What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.
Arianna Huffington
#38. Behind them the solemn-faced warriors stood, engraved into the vast double doors of the mansion. In front of them, the fountain lay broken into three large chunks and a mass of smaller rocks, scattered around.
A.O. Peart
#39. This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.
Holly Lisle
#40. Livie, I think you're completely fucked up.
Chunks of cheesecake fly out of my mouth and splatter against the deck's glass panel as I choke on my fork. My sister has a twisted sense of humor.
K.A. Tucker
#41. I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition.
Don DeLillo
#42. Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#43. Cream is put in a cardboard container, and the container is put in a carton on a bed of dry ice, and chunks of dry ice are packed on both sides of it and on top.
Rex Stout
#44. To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.
Peter Drucker
#45. Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#46. It seemed as if the longer she lived, the more was taken from her. Not gradually, as old age fell into the inevitable, but lobbed off in great chunks, the healthy branches sacrificed along with the frail.
Shelley Noble
#47. It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.
James Taylor
#48. When one of us is dying, they say a part of all of us is. I think that's why it hurts. We go our whole lives losing little chunks until we can't lose any more of them.
John Corey Whaley
#49. Asteroids are craggy chunks of rock. Comets are balls of dirt, ice, and frozen gases. And meteors are, quite simply, whatever falls through and burns up in Earth's atmosphere from outer space. Asteroids
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#50. There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.
Joseph Heller
#51. When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan.
Emeril Lagasse
#52. I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.
Abba Kovner
#54. I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by writing it and then revising the entire thing. When it comes to saga, this means writing large chunks of prose before any of it coalesces into a book.
Katharine Kerr
#55. We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?
Rick Riordan
#56. Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.
Emeril Lagasse
#57. I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.
Alexa Von Tobel
#58. Cole - For the fifth labour what better treat than to sling giant chunks of dung
Brodi Ashton
#59. You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.
Tina Fey
#60. There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.
Philip-Lorca DiCorcia
#61. I root through your remains,
looking for the black box. Nothing left
but glossy chunks, a pimp's platinum
tooth clanking inside the urn. I play you
over and over, my beloved conspiracy,
my personal Zapruder film
Erin Belieu
#62. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections.
Adam Rutherford
#63. Capitalism really had triumphed. You could buy anything from gray-colored chips the size of marbles to giant boulder-size chunks complete with spray-painted graffiti.
Liane Moriarty
#64. We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
Vince Cable
#65. Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.
Melody Beattie
#66. Human working memory is able to hold no more than some four or five chunks of information at any given time.
Nick Bostrom
#67. The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.
Harold B. Lee
#68. She didn't need 'little chunks of home'. They were like slightly sinister postcards from old enemies.
Lisa Jewell
#69. You ever wonder why an East Eng girl like me hasn't got much in the way of family? Well here's the reasons Petra. World War 1. World War 2. Falklands War. Gulf War 1. Gulf War 2 and the War on Drugs. You can take your pick because I've lost whole bloody chunks of my family in all of them.
Chris Cleave
#70. Back pocket Richie took a flattened can which had once held Del Monte pineapple chunks. There was a ragged hole about two inches in diameter through
Stephen King
#71. You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.
Orson Scott Card
#72. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.
Kieron Gillen
#74. Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?
Daniel J. King
#75. The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
David Mitchell
#76. In stories told later, many boys would claim that the girls on Coffin Rock were decorated with chunks of raw turkey, soaked in poultry blood like the chick in fuckin' Carrie, but this was embellishment.
Joe Hill
#77. [ ... ] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.
Terry Pratchett
#78. I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.
Neal Barnard
#79. This process - in which the brain converts a sequence of actions into an automatic routine - is known as "chunking," and it's at the root of how habits form.1.18 There are dozens - if not hundreds - of behavioral chunks that we rely on every day.
Charles Duhigg
#80. She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn't torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them. She kept it simple.
Ann Brashares
#81. The secret has been killing me. Taking small chunks out of who I am until I wasn't me anymore.
Marata Eros
#82. Something must be going on deep in his subconscious, he thought, some kind of redecoration, refurbishment, reupholstering that required a lot of downtime - some shadowy application running in the background, performing unknown operations, consuming huge chunks of psychic ram.
Lev Grossman
#83. Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Forbes
#84. I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it ... I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
George Bernard Shaw
#85. Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.
Aimee Bender
#86. For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.
Nick Hornby
#87. One sat painfully now, among the falling chunks of rain, and the other stood next to her, waiting.
Markus Zusak
#88. A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aiden's mind out the back of his head, but not today. Today Aiden was fresh out of shock and running low on wonder.
Matt K. Turner
#89. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#90. But calling up magic when there were arrows flying and chunks of the countryside disappearing was about as easy as going to the toilet on command with a dozen people watching. Who all hated you.
Eoin Colfer
#91. Magic has big sharp teeth. When it bites, it doesn't nibble. It takes big, bloody chunks. So be very, very careful.
William Blystone
#92. I want to try for another record tomorrow. What was that last kind I had? With the chocolate chunks?"
"Stracciatella."
"I'm naming my first daughter after it."
"Lucky her.
Jenna Evans Welch
#93. We played with the moon all night, painting faces on its blank cheek, shining its spotlight into sleeping people's windows. But mostly we just ate the moon, stuck tongues to its surface and felt it dissolve, left chunks of its minty scalp on neighbors' doorsteps.
Jalina Mhyana
#94. Heartbreak is stupid and impossible. Hearts don't break. Hearts squeeze, they wrench, they ache, they shrivel. Hearts pull apart in wet chunks like canned tomatoes.
Jael McHenry
#95. I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
Liam Neeson
#96. There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.
Hugh Hefner
#97. Ninja chicken isn't he?" You grinned at me, rolling your sleeves up."We'll see about that."
You reached into the cage. Instantly Dick was onto your hand, clawing at you, biting chunks with his beak.
"Godamn rooster!
Lucy Christopher
#98. It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.
Gerald R. Ford
#99. Politicians are a lot like five-year-olds. You know: one day they're best friends and five minutes later they're rolling around in the sandpit biting chunks out of each other.
Robert Muchamore
#100. An adult mind that is brimming with chunks is a powerful engine of reason, but it comes with a cost: a failure to communicate with other minds that have not mastered the same chunks.
Steven Pinker
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