#lumps

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#books #lifeless #lumps #minds #paper

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off. ↗

— Frank Langella

#get #had #helped #i #interested

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#push #slump #slumps #world #you

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. ↗

— James Stephens

#finality #lumps #nothing #perfect #perfection

Filming is long - you get very tired, and your skin breaks out and you get lumps and bumps. It's easier if you're allowed to have bags under your eyes. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#bags #breaks #bumps #easier #eyes

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down. ↗

— Suzy Parker

#believe #down #gold #gold standard #i

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. ↗

— Johnny Bench

#easy #get #hard #into #like

I had slumps that lasted into the winter. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#i #into #lasted #slumps #winter

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it. ↗

— Mark Messier

#everybody #goes #i #i think #just

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#being #big #big mouth #bumps #child