Quotes About Pumping Up

#1. Lincoln again got his name prominently mentioned in the New York Tribune, though this time it was for allegedly pumping up his expense account.

Harold Holzer

#2. By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism

John Avlon

#3. So, there on the front step, he decided to go with total hysteria. He started breathing hard, pumping up some tears, got a good whimpering sob going, then opened the door with a dieseling back sniffle. He fell onto the welcome mat and let loose with a full fire-truck-siren wail.

Christopher Moore

#4. Besides singing "Jump Around" to all the WWE superstars in the locker room? Uh ... I enjoy listening to music, pumping up, and getting really muscular and oily. I like to oil myself before.

The Miz

#5. He's fighting it, probably more for me than for him, and it's hard because unconsciousness would be its own form of escape. But the adrenaline pumping through my body would never allow me to follow him, so I can't let him go. I just can't.

Suzanne Collins

#6. This is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood.

Regina Spektor

#7. You're in my blood spreading through my heart - pumping me numb.

Coco J. Ginger

#8. I think music can really affect people's emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat - that's when you've got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus.

Allan McNish

#9. They say the city gets in your blood, but that's crap. The city doesn't become part of you... you become part of it. It soaks you up bit by bit, year after year. Until you're just a tiny part of its system... Pumping through its veins, lost in its arteries.

Jeff Lemire

#10. He seemed to be having trouble remembering the steps, for he was pumping my arm and counting under his breath (one, two, three), and his breath smelled like the open maws of the pub cellars that grapes on Whitchurch pavements on delivery day. Beer.

Lorna Sage

#11. Whirl man's mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!

Ray Bradbury

#12. I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'

John Kessel

#13. No Mama. Been here awhile seen a lot of girls, in a lot of places. Don't believe I've ever seen one pumping gas barefoot.

Jordan Marie

#14. Although his heart was pumping and his adrenal gland was firing at full capacity, he could not muster any more speed.

Andrew J. Morgan

#15. After the oil spill, I had this strong feeling that if I ever were to be blessed in having children, I never wanted my kids to see me pumping gas at a gas station. I think it's our responsibility to make the changes that we need to take regardless of convenience.

Alyssa Milano

#16. A Model S can recharge 150 miles of range in 20 minutes at one of Tesla's charging stations with DC power pumping straight into the batteries. By comparison, a Nissan Leaf that maxes out at 80 miles of range can take 8 hours to recharge.

Ashlee Vance

#17. Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating tumult of recent decades, reliably pumping out its roughly 10 million barrels a day like Bossy the cow in America's oil import barn.

James Howard Kunstler

#18. When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

Feist

#19. Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.

Jennifer McMahon

#20. The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain.

Janny Wurts

#21. I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

Grant Show

#22. ...there is no sound in nature that makes men move along faster than the pumping of a shotgun.

C.J. Box

#23. You're wrong about one thing, though," she said. Daniel looked quizzically at her. "What?" Etta reached up to his brow and brushed his hair off his forehead with a gentle caress that set his blood to pumping. Then she tilted her head back and met his gaze. "You are a hero. My hero." And

Karen Witemeyer

#24. Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.

Ramez Naam

#25. Andy gasped and jumped up, pumping his fists and yelling, "Yahoo!" Alden and the King stared at the spectacle and started laughing.

L.R.W. Lee

#26. Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

Gregory Maguire

#27. Thought of Riordan. Thought of a big hand wrapping around my shaft, sliding up and down, pumping hard ... harder. The head of my cock leaked a single salty tear to slick my own hand's efforts. Yikes. Think of Bruce. Yeah. Better. Safer. Saner ...

Josh Lanyon

#28. Your heart - as you call it - and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.

Sarah Waters

#29. Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are ... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.

James Joyce

#30. You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.

Roger Bannister

#31. Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

Jodie Foster

#32. Emilia stared at me for three or four more seconds, then gave up on pumping me for information. "We should go," she decided with the force of a monarch declaring law. "I have Latin first period. The Aeneid waits for no man.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#33. I'm a girl that loves cars. I've always loved them. I love to drive with the windows down, sunroof open, and music pumping.

Rachel Nichols

#34. The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.

Rudy Josephs

#35. I may be immortal but I am still a man with blood pumping in my veins." He moves an inch closer. My skin heats up. Every nerve is burning. "You are off-limits. You are forbidden to me. And all it does is make me want you more.

Karina Halle

#36. I had never had any heart-pumping spiritual moments, the ones that would have made me think there was someone up there with my best interests at heart. So, if he did exist, one might say God and I mutually ignored each other.

Anonymous

#37. Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

Dimebag Darrell

#38. After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.

Brad Alan Lewis

#39. I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Adam Oates

#40. There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.

Cam Newton

#41. He found the hard bud of her clit with his thumb and began rubbing in a circle. "Is that what you like?" he whispered in her ear. "A slow rub on that pretty little button? Or do you want my fingers, pumping in and out of your pussy?

Megan Erickson

#42. Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

Marian McPartland

#43. All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

Dionne Warwick

#44. As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness.

John Ortberg

#45. The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

Baron Davis

#46. I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived ... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Chuck Palahniuk

#47. I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

Eve Ensler

#48. I know a little of why there is blood in my body, pumping life into my limbs and thought into my brain. I am wanted by God.

Donald Miller

#49. Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.'

Penelope Ann Miller

#50. I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.

Kevin McCloud

#51. I've gotten into the habit of cranking out a set of push-ups before each show to get my blood pumping and find my focus. I worked my way up from eight to 30. That was a real accomplishment.

Christie Brinkley

#52. The first mile was always the hardest. By the second, the world grew fuzzy at the edges and only the muffled sound of feet on the trail and the blood pumping in my ears filtered through the haze.

Christina Lauren

#53. The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.

Joe Mantegna

#54. He's turned my blood to ice, stopped my heart from pumping it from fear that if it does, it might still beat for him.

J.M. Darhower

#55. Her heart was pumping sunshine and fresh running water.

Caela Carter

#56. Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.

Erica Jong

#57. I got the swag and it's pumping out my ovaries

Kreayshawn

#58. To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

Jessica Ennis

#59. The image of Kurdish blood pumping through the heart of a little Arab boy like Ahmed was not lost on anyone.

Jeremy Courtney

#60. Taking a couple of deep breaths, he knew he had to choose his words carefully - in spite of the fact that his adrenal gland had opened up full-bore and was pumping enough OMG into his system that he was drowning in terror.

J.R. Ward

#61. I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

David Attenborough

#62. Unless you have chains around your ankles, I want to see your elbows pumping down the hallway now!' Isn't it nicer, however, to be asked to "drop by"?

James C. Wetherbe

#63. I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

Harry Connick Jr.

#64. There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

Tahir Shah

#65. It's important to me that no one can say I'm not pumping out high-level research.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#66. [S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.

Max Barry

#67. Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.

Mickey Hart

#68. For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#69. One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#70. Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

Daniel Goleman

#71. Look at me and don't stop." He tightened his hands under my ass cheeks and started pumping into me. Hard. Deep. Punishing really but I didn't care. I wanted this from him as I stared into eyes burning blue fire at me. "Ethan!

Raine Miller

#72. The only thing better than a happy Heart is a clear mind to keep it pumping. Cleanse yourself from within and you're bound to win.

Stabley Victor Paskavich

#73. My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping a whole new kind of blood into your veins. This is what it is to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.

Carrie Brownstein

#74. Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#75. Deborah just watched him as he skidded to a stop in front of her. He seemed young for a dentist, maybe thirty, and in all honesty he looked a little too buff, too, as though he had been pumping iron when he should have been filling cavities. Deborah

Jeff Lindsay

#76. You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Michael Flatley

#77. Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.

Gene Tunney

#78. My brain turns to complete and utter mush because all of my blood is pumping straight to the organ my body thinks is most vital at the moment - my cock - and I go stupid. I can't say anything.

Georgia Cates