#hump

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#been #burst #chest #down #felt

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#bass #began #finger #like #should

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#best #health #humping #pumping #your

When Grandma read me: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . . I never knew that Humpty's fall was something that someday comes to us all. ↗

— Lee Bennett Hopkins

#life

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#humpty-dumpty #humor

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#american #jhumpa-lahiri #life #money #the-namesake

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover. ↗

— Cecily von Ziegesar

#dan-humphrey #don-t-you-forget-about-me #gossip-girl #poem #poetry

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you. ↗

— Cecily von Ziegesar

#dan-humphrey #gossip-girl #gossip

Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#funny #humor #humpty-dumpty #in-the-looking-glass #meaning

Out of curiosity, when do I grow up and become a fullfledged man with a penis?” “When words like ‘hump day’ don’t make you giggle like a twelve-year-old,” he retorted, blowing smoke my way. “Wow, that long? ↗

— Dani Alexander

#growing-up #humor #hump-day #humor