Quotes About Dumpty

#1. I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

Ricky Gervais

#2. You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

Henry Louis Gates

#3. 'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air.
'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

Lewis Carroll

#4. Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra" - in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Gale Forman

#6. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

Ice Cube

#7. Whitman Press will publish three children's textbooks, based on your creed, for which you'll deliver manuscripts and artwork. The three books are: 1. Dagon and Jill 2. The Shadow Over Humpty Dumpty 3. A Children's Necronomicon (with pop-up section)

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. Man is vulnerable only in his pride, but delicate as Humpty-Dumpty once that is meddled with - though some of them paid the fact a cautious lipservice.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and hurned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o-clock schollar blow off his legs and then watch him holler ...

Dalton Trumbo

#10. And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.' That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was.

George Carlin

#11. When I heard Humpty Dumpty I wondered did he fall or was he pushed?

P.D. James

#12. Like Humpty Dumpty. At some point you have to pick up the pieces. Or walk away. Don't look back. Fuck the king's horses.

Lauren Beukes

#13. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

Lewis Carroll

#14. Disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

Charlotte Armstrong

#15. After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.

Colin Mochrie

#16. Humpty Dumpty was pushed.

Fred Berri

#17. When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.

Lewis Carroll

#18. When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

P.D. James

#19. Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.

Herbert A. Simon

#20. When Grandma read me:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall ...
I never
knew
that
Humpty's
fall
was
something
that
someday
comes
to
us
all.

Lee Bennett Hopkins

#21. And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?"
"Three hundred and sixty-four, of course."
Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

Lewis Carroll

#22. I'm Jill Dumpty."
"So your brother was Humpty Dumpty?"
"And he didn't fall off that wall, Mr. Horner. He was pushed.

Neil Gaiman

#23. She wasn't on heroin then, but she was a mess. I thought I was going to put Humpty Dumpty back together and turn her into a princess. Instead, she turned into scrambled eggs, and always was

Danielle Steel

#24. Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

Lewis Carroll

#25. My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together.

Kiki Smith

#26. No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#27. When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

Therese Anne Fowler

#28. He looks like a mixture of Humpty-Dumpty and a Cornish elf
very short and broad
and I don't think he's anyone's fool.

John Le Carre

#29. Her returned in the evening, drier, sharper, a man with a closer kinship with a thorn bush.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

#30. The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.

Wallace Stevens

#31. Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you have to own people, then twist them into what you want to say about them.

Art Kane

#32. May you see the world with wonder.
And may you imagine only good things.

Charlene Costanzo

#33. This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years.

Rick Yune

#34. If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

Louis C.K.

#35. I would like to inspire the community by envisioning, enabling, energizing and ensuring.

Debasish Mridha

#36. I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

Virginia Woolf

#37. My life is going to change. I feel it.

Raymond Carver

#38. The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of
love and forgiveness into them.

Isabel Allende

#39. James couldn't help it, he smiled. Charlotte was the strangest girl he'd spent time with lately, not because she was weird or even kinky, but because sweetness seemed to pour from her skin like molasses.

Eve Dangerfield

#40. My choices matter - and there are paths towards making wiser ones - but I cannot choose what I choose. And if it ever appears that I do - for instance, after going back between two options - I do not choose to choose what I choose. There is a regress here that always ends in darkness.

Sam Harris

#41. One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.

Gautama Buddha

#42. How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

David Blunkett

#43. Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

Jasper Fforde