Bumptious In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

I want, I don't want. How can one live with such a heart? — Margaret Atwood

Gunner shook his head; he wasn't in the mood. He stared down at his bottle as he spoke. "Yeah, and what if I do go after it and what if I find no one, and I'm alone for the next sixty years? What then? Huh? Friends and family will get married. I'll be stuck buying gifts. Years pass: children, birthday parties. At dinner parties, I'll be odd man out, forcing people to arrange five chairs around a table instead of four or six. Or, okay, let's say maybe twenty years down the line I meet someone nice and I've already given up on ever finding true love. Let's say the girl is a few pounds overweight, has fizzy hair and an annoying laugh, but at this point, I'm also a few pounds overweight and my hair is thinning and my laughter is annoying. Maybe then the two of us get married, and both our groups of friends will say, 'See I told you that you'd find true love. It just took a while.' And we'll smile, but we'll both know it's a lie-- — Michael Anthony

... and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought,
because I think he could have beautiful thoughts,
and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness. — Charlotte Eriksson

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. — Zora Neale Hurston

Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering of practically everything, and by means of a trick memory had managed to keep it all straight. — Isaac Asimov

It's almost indecent," Mr. Kent said with a sigh.
"What is?"
"The way you look at each other. — Tarun Shanker

Crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you — George R R Martin

A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others.

-Ben, Barnyard — Steve Oedekerk

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that. — Steven Price

All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness! — Lewis Carroll

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke. — Anthony Jeselnik

I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things. — Desmond Tutu

A poet does not see or hear or feel things that others do not see or hear or feel. What makes a person a poet is the ability to recall what she has felt and seen and heard. And to relive it and describe it in such a way that others can then see and feel and hear again what they may have missed. — William Wordsworth

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in. — Viggo Mortensen

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. — Raymond Chandler