Top 253 Lump Quotes & Sayings

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

The more natural the charcoal, the better your food will taste. Rather than briquettes, use lump charcoal, which is is all-natural. Lump charcoal will cause your grill to get much hotter than briquettes. Also, briquettes have chemical filler which holds saw dust together and can change the taste of the food.

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

It's that tingle in my stomach, that lump in my throat and that smile on my face that tell me I am part of an incredible team.

I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.

The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't going to do anything for you....it is an entirely different game to buy a lump of something and hope that somebody else pays you more for that lump two years from now than it is to buy something that you expect to produce income for you over time.

The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.

The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there's no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams.

I felt a lump in my throat as the ball went in.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government can impose a lump-sum tax - the same amount for everyone regardless of their income or expenditures - because it would fall heaviest on those with less income, and it would grind the poor, who might be unable to pay it at all.

I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.

I prefer lump charcoal over briquettes but I do use both for different reasons and different recipes and sometimes I combine them both when I really want the woodsy aroma from the lump charcoal and long, even heat from the briquettes.

For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.

A lump in the throat is worth two on the head.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.

I just don't think you can lump television shows together.

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.

Place a lump of fresh butter in a pan or egg dish and let it melt - that is, just enough for it to spread, and never, of course, to crackle or sit; open a very fresh egg onto a small plate or saucer and slide it carefully into the pan; cook it on heat so low that the white barely turns creamy, and the yolk becomes hot but remains liquid; in a separate saucepan, melt another lump of fresh butter; remove the egg onto a lightly heated serving plate; salt it and pepper it, then very gently pour this fresh, warm butter over it

A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on His shoulder, He says to the bar man give us a pint and one for the road.

I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.

I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.

A real yogin...does not see the difference between a lump of dirt and a lump of gold

The former pension minister, the Liberal Democrat Steve Webb said I was trying to abolish the lump sum. Instead, we are going to keep the lump sum and abolish the Liberal Democrats.

My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

Thou lump of foul deformity!

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew.

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.