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Quotes About Lumbering

You type as fast as a one footed elephant.
~ Aaron J. Munzer
The Suzuki hit a trace of diesel on the second one and shied sideways, damned near high-siding me into the back end of a lumbering Volvo saloon. It would have made an ironic change for a biker to have wiped out a Swedish tank
~ Zoë Sharp
I was feeling all fertile and blossoming there for a second. And now I just feel like me, on earth. I was floating a little bit there before. I was like a very small version of a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon. I was puffy and needed handlers. I was lumbering through the air, a couple inches off the ground. I was veering toward lampposts.
~ Amy Fusselman
We are the behemoths—lost, lumbering, out of our time. We are about to become extinct. And yet we are young, barely thirty, and we have not even begun to live.
~ Rona Jaffe
think that the rare Englishmen who have this gesture are never of the heavy type— for fear of any lumbering instance to the contrary, I will say, hardly ever; they have usually a fine temperament and much tolerance towards the smaller errors of men (themselves inclusive). The
~ George Eliot
He kept low and darted to another tree. He looked, he assumed, rather doofy - a guy six feet four inches tall and comfortably over two hundred pounds darting between bushes like something left on the cutting room floor of The Dirty Dozen.
~ Harlan Coben
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
~ George Santayana
The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.
~ Richard Jefferies
She's here on Blue Ant's ticket. Relatively tiny in terms of permanent staff, globally distributed, more post-geographic than multinational, the agency has from the beginning billed itself as a high-speed, low-drag life-form in an advertising ecology of lumbering herbivores.
~ William Gibson
at least this way I never get to be a nightwalker, lumbering around the Winter, eating beetles and curtains and people and stuff
~ Jasper Fforde
Shifting from one hip to the other in his lumbering, elephantine fashion, Ignatius sent waves of flesh rippling beneath the tweed and flannel, waves that broke upon buttons and seams. Thus
~ John Kennedy Toole