Prime The Pump Quotes & Sayings

Asking for and receiving help is a way to prime the pump of generosity. — Jay Perry

She had a bottle of water in her pack - a big one with a squeeze-top - but suddenly all Trisha wanted in the world was to prime the pump in the little hut and get a drink, cold and fresh, from its rusty lip. She would drink and pretend she was Bilbo Baggins, on his way to the Misty Mountains. — Stephen King

The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess, — Sam Tanenhaus

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top. — Agatha Christie

Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment. — Bill Gates

Guarda il cielo. Non troverai mai un arcobaleno se stai guardando per terra.
Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down. — Charlie Chaplin

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery. — Eric Cantor

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out. — John C. Maxwell

Before, you were only a dream. Now you're a dream come true — Teresa Medeiros

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all. — Tom Glazer

It was tempting to view your family as an extension of yourself, but it was a mistake. — Josh Lanyon

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity. — Deepak Chopra

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways. — Katherine Paterson

Life becomes easy for people who respond to the demands of life. — Sunday Adelaja

Are ya tryin' to kill me, Maggie?" Declan bit the words out and his fingers dug deeper into her hips. "Are ya wantin' to see a grown man beg? — Sara Humphreys

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give. — Stephen King