Oomp Quotes & Sayings

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

There is no Success or Failure in "LOVE", by itself is a Victory !! — Mahesh Shekhar

And ponder what he said about there being people with worse problems than mine. It takes me all of three seconds to conclude that's such a bullshit thing to say. Like the people in Iran are more important than me because their suffering is supposedly more acute. Bullshit. — Matthew Quick

Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial. — Liane Moriarty

Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with two cars and umpteen tax shelters. None of them go hungry to bed at night. — Audre Lorde

Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level. — Honor Harger

For years they've grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon, which is their cute nickname for the pope. — Sarah Vowell

Look, I don't care what the Ooga-Boogas do. It sounds like they need a family counselor, not a sniper. (Steele)
They're not Ooga-Boogas, they're Uhbukistanis. (Syd)
Whatever. My personal belief is that we should leave Ooga-Booga Land to the Oomp-Loompas. Let them fight it out with the Snozzwangers, Wangdoogles, and the mean Vermicious Knids. I'd rather go peal carrots with a spoon. (Steele) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

What's wrong?" he said. "I'll tell you what's wrong: you're killing us."
"But I thought that's what you wanted?"
"We did," my mother wept, "but not this way."
It hadn't occurred to me until that moment, but I seemed to have come full circle. What started as a dodge had inadvertently become my life's work, an irony I never could have appreciated had my extraordinary parents not put me through Princeton. — David Sedaris