Stump Quotes

#1. Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest,

Charlie Daniels

#2. For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#3. I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very ... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

Patrick Stump

#4. The proper way to eat a fig, in society,
Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,
And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

Patrick Stump

#6. About Soul Punk:
There was this moment where I worried FOB really wasn't coming back so I tried to make a hit record out of an art project.

Patrick Stump

#7. Quentin went to work on a bitter single malt Scotch that tasted like it had been decanted through the stump of an oak tree that had been killed by lightning.

Lev Grossman

#8. It's true there are moments - foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump - when I'm all but gone, scattered I like to think like seed, for I'm the sort now in the fool's position of having love left over which I'd like to lose; what good is it now to me, candy ungiven after Halloween?

William H Gass

#9. Fearing that Taft would be too reticent on the stump, Roosevelt barraged him with incessant advice. "Do not answer Bryan; attack him!" he counseled in early September, adding, "Don't let him make the issues.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#10. Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

Patrick Stump

#11. Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.

Al Stump

#12. [I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.

Steve Toltz

#13. Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)

Patrick Stump

#14. Watch the dog! His hands actually hesitated, and I think he realized for the first time that PC was there. The dog's presence seemed to stump him. What, he's never seen a dog in a purse before? That or he thought PC was some sort of hairless rat - that happened.

Kalayna Price

#15. But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down ... this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived!
It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

Betty Smith

#16. But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum.

Pete Wentz

#17. Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for a couple of hours' usage of your frankly third-rate restaurant and perhaps find a friendless tree stump to listen to your woes?

Eoin Colfer

#18. I've learned a lot about things because of the Internet. I'm happy with it, but it's a long road for me. I'm still definitely a little anti.

Patrick Stump

#19. Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late

John Buchanan

#20. In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

Mitt Romney

#21. feel like I've never really been beholden to any genre. FOB's kind of changed on every record

Patrick Stump

#22. You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

Murray Walker

#23. I never did understand
why the tree was still happy
at the end. The little boy
used her until she was
nothing but a stump.
She couldn't even run away.
But the ending was always the same:
And the tree was happy.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#24. If you turned a Labrador into a person you would make Brad Kline. He's happy and gushy and about as interesting and complex as a tree stump.

Andrea Portes

#25. A stump loomed in front of them, splitting the path. They drifted apart, their clasped hands rising as it came between them.

"Hold on, " Laura said. "Hold on.

Brock Cole

#26. Hi-YI! YOU'RE up a stump, ain't you!

Mark Twain

#27. A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. PROVERBS 11:28

Rick Warren

#28. Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen.

Patrick Stump

#29. Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger ...

Patrick Stump

#30. He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule.

George R R Martin

#31. If you're trying to open a doorway to perception and it seems to be stuck, try opening it the other way.

Robert Stump

#32. I don't ship anything. Except when I have to send packages through the mail. Now, please stop asking about fanfic.

Patrick Stump

#33. Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.

Colette Inez

#34. For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

Patrick Stump

#35. It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.

Robert Jordan

#36. Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

Patrick Stump

#37. Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

Patrick Stump

#38. It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.

Ramakrishna

#39. When I was 5, I did a commercial for Whirlpool sitting on a tree stump eating a popsicle that dripped all over my clothes.

Drake Bell

#40. Tattoos are cool. I probably won't ever get any

Patrick Stump

#41. I'm not trying to stump anybody ... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

Buddy Holly

#42. I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

Patrick Stump

#43. Everyday you gotta wake up & be yourself, even if you suck, especially if you suck, because no one else sucks like you suck - Patrick Stump

Patrick Stump

#44. You could be your own spotlight!

Patrick Stump

#45. I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

Patrick Stump

#46. I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

Patrick Stump

#47. My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.

Patrick Stump

#48. And then she would put her hand over the bird's face like she was hiding it from seeing something, and then she would grab and twist. Break the neck. Slice the head off on the stump.

Jesmyn Ward

#49. Everything looked like death to me, a bush was hunched-over grizzly, a skinny tree stump was a wolf staring right at me. My heart was thumping and kicking in me like it was trying to get free a' my stupid.

Beth Lewis

#50. No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

Patrick Stump

#51. Though a few older men cut fingers in time of grief, it is usually the smallest girls who are selected for this ceremony, and a woman in the valley whose left hand is not a stump is very rare.

Peter Matthiessen

#52. The man would fight with a stump.

Terri Osburn

#53. I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

Patrick Stump

#54. Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be willing to talk to me.

Rachel Maddow

#55. Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

Patrick Stump

#56. Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

Kevin Drum

#57. Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

Patrick Stump

#58. Eh, "Haters," never bothered me. Nothing on twitter is serious. I only dislike when folks attack each other.

Patrick Stump

#59. The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump ... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

Thomas Eakins

#60. Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

Patrick Stump

#61. American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins

Patrick Stump

#62. Pessimism is basically being too inflexible or too impatient with your dreams. Thanks for being so kind!!!

Patrick Stump

#63. God, is too complicated a concept to tweet about. As the Simpsons said: "Short answer 'No,' Long answer 'Yes,' with a 'But,

Patrick Stump

#64. The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'

Patrick Stump

#65. Bel pointed. "Head. Tail. Pets go here." He pointed to the dog's head again. "Farts come out here." He pointed to the dog's back end. "That's all you need to know about Stump.

Lisa Henry

#66. He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction

Timothy B. Tyson

#67. I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

Patrick Stump

#68. Uh, those problems never fully go away; Nobody's career is invincible. We're beyond blessed to still even have a record deal.

Patrick Stump

#69. I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.

Patrick Stump

#70. I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

Patrick Stump

#71. Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf.

Don Feder

#72. I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.

Patrick Stump

#73. I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I realized there was no excuse at all for me not to scale my own mountains.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#74. I love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery.

Patrick Stump

#75. I sat there and my love to him poured out more and more, and, lo, he flew down to a stump, and then to my knee. I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that the important thing is the love that goes out from oneself.

Agnes Grinstead Anderson

#76. He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.

Patrick Stump

#77. If you put your hand in my pocket, you'll drag back six inches of bloody stump.

Harlan Ellison

#78. I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.

John Raese

#79. I think writing is a much more personal thing.

Patrick Stump

#80. Someday you'll meet people who are actually on crack and you won't think that's a super funny thing to say.

Patrick Stump

#81. Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

Patrick Stump

#82. The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

Patrick Stump

#83. I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.

Patrick Stump

#84. Morris chopped off the girl's hand with a hatchet then guttered laughter. The poor mulato wailed, her stump pumping.
"What'choo do that for!" Cutton bellowed. He hadn't even gotten his trousers off before Morris had pulled this move.

Edward Lee

#85. Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

Patrick Stump

#86. You can stump any stoner with one question: What were we just talking about?

Jim Breuer

#87. One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

Patrick Stump

#88. Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

#89. The Anglo-American can indeed cut down and grub up all this waving forest, and make a stump speech on its ruins, but he cannot converse with the spirit of the tree he fells, he cannot read the poetry and mythology which retire as he advances. He ignorantly erases mythological

Henry David Thoreau

#90. Philosophically literate anthropomorphism is exactly what one would expect of any worldview which affirms that human beings are made in the image of God.

(from The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers)

Eleanore Stump

#91. Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

Patrick Stump

#92. Caring about him was like trying to love a tree stump - a cold, mean-spirited paternalistic tree stump. With fungus.

Cecily White

#93. I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs, Neal told Kel at lunch.

Tamora Pierce

#94. Replies don't matter unless we have actual conversation though. Like, wouldn't you rather be understood than acknowledged

Patrick Stump

#95. I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

Patrick Stump

#96. You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.

Brett Lee

#97. No opinions, no ideas, no real knowledge of anything, no ideals, no inspiration; a fat, slothful, querulous, greedy, impotent carcass; a stump, a decaying belly washed up on the shore ... Always tired, always bored, always hurt, always hating.

Cyril Connolly

#98. Anything with drums, bass, and guitars is under the pop umbrella. We'll continue to try new sounds as long as we're a band and just by growing up and moving on in your life doesn't mean you hate an earlier part of your life.

Patrick Stump

#99. Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

Patrick Stump

#100. In reply to "Why are people at school such d*cks"
Cause they're sad and scared and insecure. Don't let them spread it to you. Try and spread confidence and kindness

Patrick Stump