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Quotes About Gum

I'm poor just like everybody else. If someone kidnaps me, they're getting nothing but a candy, a gum.
~ Jessica Andrade
A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.
~ George Eliot
I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.
~ Gerald R. Ford
The pale fabric of reality has so many hidden pockets that we can find some change in here somewhere - you just have to dig a little deeper to avoid the chewing gum and past mistakes.
~ Corey Taylor
What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine.
~ James Lafferty
The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
~ Dave Grohl
I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky. But there wasn't any gum under any of them.
~ Emo Philips
lobby of the Santa Louisa courthouse drinking a cup of black tea from a paper cup. She pushed her long, dark hair behind her ears and tapped her pointed shoes in time with the Muzak undulating over the marble floors. A Helen Reddy song, she thought. Maybe Cher? She smelled of White Shoulders perfume and spearmint gum. When Hannah walked by, the woman smiled and raised a hand as if to wave. But the friendliness of the gesture was not returned.
~ Gregg Olsen
On July 4, 2015, Brewers center fielder Carlos Gomez left a gift for his counterpart Billy Hamilton. As the bottom of the third inning ended, Gomez left a pile of gum and a note for Hamilton that read, "I see you dropped all your gum so I brought you some more." TV cameras captured Gomez leaving the gum, Hamilton finding it, and both men laughing as a result.
~ Bill Schroeder
Merrill One time, I was at this party... and I was sitting on the couch with Amanda McKinney. She was just sitting there, looking beautiful. So, I lean in to kiss her, and I realize I have gum in my mouth. So, I turn to spit it out and put it in a paper cup. I turn back, and Amanda McKinney throws up all over herself. I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
~ Signs
The term incense now refers to any material used to produce a fragrant aroma when burned, but it originally referred specifically to gum resins exuded by Boswellia trees. As the word began to be used more generally, these gum resins became known as frankincense, meaning true (frank) incense.
~ Judika Illes
The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.
~ Harper Lee
We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.
~ Penny Marshall
What if I have bad breath?' I asked. 'Chew on some gum,' she said. 'What if I can't find his tongue?' 'Back off on your tongue until you can feel his.' 'What if he throws up in my mouth?' 'Um, that would just be gross.
~ Julie Halpern
Jason Sudeikis is always chewing gum.
~ Bill Hader
Behind the upper and lower front row are four to five additional rows of replacement teeth, folded back into the gum line like a conveyor belt. Composed
~ Steve Alten
Stride Winterblue gum (every drunk's secret gum)
~ C.J. Box
I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.
~ Emo Philips
How can men be such lummoxes, such wads of chewing gum on our ballet slippers and still feel so good?
~ Tom Robbins
I am not into spicy foods. Big Red chewing gum is even too 'hot' for me.
~ Ainsley Earhardt
His eyes were alert despite the hour and the green chew
~ Nelson DeMille
I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not only uncomfortable, but I look really weird when I'm doing it, and chewing gum is the only way I can stop myself.
~ Lisa Jewell
It's special gum," she said. "Every time you chew, a woman in Estonia is having a singing orgasm.
~ Nicholson Baker