Bumpus Body Quotes & Sayings

Because of Twitter, I think people know most every single thing about me. I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people about me. — Blake Shelton

Child, there's a sayin' every fishmonger has. When you buy land, you buy stones. When you buy fish, you buy bones. — Karen Cecil Smith

The all-seeing government can be very nearsighted when it comes to scrutinizing the actions of its own appendages. — Neal Shusterman

A successful coup ain't a treason. — Toba Beta

To Be a Great Leader, First Become a Great Person. — Robin S. Sharma

Of many large volumes the index is the best portion and the usefullest. A glance through the casement gives whatever knowledge of the interior is needful. An epitome is only a book shortened; and as a general rule, the worth increases as the size lessens. — Robert Aris Willmott

A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads! — Catherine Booth

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. — Arthur Wellesley

All movements need a few people who can't be fired. — Gloria Steinem

Some days there were more police in schools than students. Rumors spread that armed black marauders would ride through their neighborhoods shooting whites at random; that blacks were carrying knives and razors to school to turn girls' rooms into rape rooms. So whites started carrying them first. — Rick Perlstein

Is it time uninterrupted? Only the present comprehended? Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains, no stops, devoid of dimension, whizzing by massive posters with repeating images? Catching a fragment from a window seat, yet another fragment from the next identical frame? If I write in the present yet digress, is that still real time? Real time, I reasoned, cannot be divided into sections like numbers on the face of a clock. If I write about the past as I simultaneously dwell in the present, am I still in real time? Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory. — Patti Smith

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage. — Joshua Chamberlain

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate. — John Milton

I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas. — Maiwenn