Chum Quotes

• I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.

  Norman Wisdom

  Fun, Goes On, Crowds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

  Ava Gardner

  Hate, Sea, House

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• A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

  Larry Gelbart

  New York, War, Rain

  "Fictional character: Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce". TV Series "M*A*S*H" ("The Interview", 1976), www.imdb.com. 1972-1983.

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• At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Birthday, Hands, Cake

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• You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

  Norman Wisdom

  Dog, Legs, Night Time

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

  Jane Wagner

  Reality, Thinking, Views

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• What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.

  Fred Ebb

  Play, Sitting, Rooms

  "Cabaret" (song) (1966)

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• My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

  Miranda Hart

  Privilege, Hello, Dear

  "he battle of the celebrity memoirs" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the Cabaret.

  Fred Ebb

  Life Is, Sitting Alone, Cabaret

  "Cabaret" (song) (1966)

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• Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

  Stephen King

  Dad, Chicks

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 24, 2013

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• I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Drinking, Night, Alcohol

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• My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.

  Lily Tomlin

  Crazy, Unique, Thinking

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• You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Maturity, Mature, Company

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• I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded.

  L. Neil Smith

  Government, San Francisco, Long

  "It Has to Cost Them Something". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 08, 2009.

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• No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.

  Allison Pearson

  Girly, Dog, Men

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• At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

  Helen Hayes

  Birthday, Laughing, Age

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• I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Science, Years, Fiction

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• I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

  Peter O'Toole

  Fun, Years, Class

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• I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

  David Levithan

  People, Adjectives, Used

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

  Rachel Cohn

  People, Adjectives, Used

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

  Carl Andre

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Loneliness, Chips, Bother

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• When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.

  Bill Roorbach

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Bill Roorbach (2000). “Writing Life Stories”, p.97, Writer's Digest Books

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• Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Christmas, Children, Book

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• It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

  Mark Steyn

  Israel, Palestinian, Hamas

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