#bump

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump. ↗

— Vin Scully

#bump #fever #goose #guess #i

The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio. ↗

— Beth Orton

#bumped #couple #days #get #harper

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.' ↗

— Charlotte Rae

#cool #i #i wish #into #kids

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #bump #church #deciding #dump

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#book #bumped #cape #dead #desert

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too. ↗

— Tom Felton

#goosebumps #i #kid #too #used

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#bump #business #causing #dull #going

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner. ↗

— David Cross

#bumper #corner #hate #i #paint

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#back door #booked #bumped #crying #door