Slumpbuster Quotes

#1. A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.

Mark Grace

#2. My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."
"Then it may be rescued and healed," said Dorothea.

George Eliot

#3. Sick unto death, I think they call it

Eloisa James

#4. In your way that I have come to know and appreciate, you did not say anything. You didn't push me to say more. You waited. Your patience is a gift. You trusted our silence.

M.J. Rose

#5. The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

John Stott

#6. When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."

Nick Offerman

#7. In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Ruzwana Bashir

#8. I used to wear makeup all the time when I was younger. Now I go out and I don't care.

Jane Leeves

#9. The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

Mason Cooley

#10. Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#11. War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

Anthony Marra

#12. > CracKing: No need to yell.
> FtLouie: I'm not yelling!!!
> CracKing: You're using excessive amounts of punctuation, and on-line, that's like yelling.

Meg Cabot

#13. Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Aldous Huxley