Gum Quotes - Page 2

• I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

  Judith Viorst

  Running, Morning, Mistake

  Shelly Markham, Judith Viorst (1999). “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: A Musical Based on the Book by Judith Viorst”, p.21, Dramatic Publishing

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• The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

  Reggie Jackson

  Years, Faces, Cards

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• Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Sweet, Sleep

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• Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the other’s going, ‘I don’t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things.

  Russell Brand

  Stupid, Giving, Mind

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• From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

  James Lileks

  Politics, Hull, Popcorn

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• A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Hate, Guy, Genius

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.

  Esther M. Friesner

  Book, Wine, Passion

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• I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his office, and he'd feed us gum under the desk.

  John F. Kennedy Jr.

  Mother, Father, Office

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• Whenever you drop something by fight, it is never dropped. You can drop smoking by fighting, and then you will start doing something else which will become a substitute. You may start chewing gum, it is the same; You may start chewing pan, it is the same, there is no difference. You need something to do with your mouth - smoking, chewing, anything. When your mouth goes on working, you feel at ease because through the mouth tensions are released. So whenever a man feels tense he starts smoking.

  Rajneesh

  Fighting, Men, Differences

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• We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

  Penny Marshall

  Baseball, Yankees, Smell

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Sex, Struggle, Joints

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• A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis - to forget about your anxieties, your tensions, your nervousness. Other things can do the same - chewing gum can do the same, but smoking does it the best. In your deep unconscious, smoking is related with sucking milk from your mother's breast. And as civilization has grown, no woman wants the child to be brought up by breast-feeding - naturally; he will destroy the breast. The breast will lose its roundness, its beauty.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Children, Simple

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• I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, Seven Years, People

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• Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

  Mary Schmich

  Worry, Trying, Chewing

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.31, Agate Digital

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• Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss

  Diablo Cody

  Vodka, Junkie, Downers

  Diablo Cody (2005). “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper”, p.57, Penguin

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• Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

  Mary Schmich

  Real, Worry, Tuesday

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.31, Agate Digital

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• Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

  Amy Gerstler

  Fear, Vegetables, Snakes

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin

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• When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some bubble gum and red pop. When they lost, we were upset because we didn't get the bubble gum and red pop.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Upset, Gloves, Lockers

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• I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Children, Husband

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• For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

  Brie Larson

  School, Brain, Reason

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• My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Girl, Mother, Book

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• By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

  C. S. Lewis

  Wish, Enough, Bigs

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• I wouldn’t treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it’s all about the breath mints!

  Alice Englert

  Kissing, Preparation, Scene

  "Alice Englert Spills Beautiful Creatures Secrets!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Voice, Roots

  "Obama doubles down in advocating active government, as GOP warns of excess" by Doug McKelway, www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2013.

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• Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

  Dave Barry

  Drinking, Advice, Fountain

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