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  • TV is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. -- Hank Ketcham
  • Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes. -- John Mason Brown
  • It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. -- Jerry Springer
  • Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them. -- Emo Philips
  • I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that. -- Hilary Duff
  • I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. -- Jack Welch
  • You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther -- Sarah Dessen
  • Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum. -- Warren Buffett
  • Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises. -- Andy Stanton
  • What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life. -- J. K. Rowling
  • Television is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell. -- Karl Lagerfeld
  • I'm a major breath person, so I always have gum, mints. -- Allison Williams
  • For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going. -- Brie Larson
  • There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet! -- Shay Mitchell
  • For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. -- Brie Larson
  • I can't live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things. -- Kelis
  • Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos. -- Harold Edward Holt
  • She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book. -- Liam Gallagher
  • I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum. -- Roddy Piper
  • No matter where I'm going, I always have sunglasses, a book, and some gum in my carry-on. -- Dylan Penn
  • Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine. -- Tabatha Coffey
  • This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • 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
  • I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum. -- Rachel G. Fox
  • The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card. -- Johnny Bench
  • You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into the tub: bubble gels, bubble oils, bubble powders, bubble gum. -- Henry Beard
  • On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser. -- Cecil Beaton
  • I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup. -- Jenna Jameson
  • 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
  • It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them. -- Timothy Olyphant
  • In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay. -- Gillian Jacobs
  • Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum -- John Candy
  • My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school. -- Carmen Busquets
  • Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. -- Barack Obama
  • [The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings forth one package of chewing gum; two pennies bring forth two. Interpreted according to the reasoning of balance physiology, the first observation is an indication of the conversion of copper into gum; the second constitutes proof. -- Rudolph Schoenheimer
  • 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
  • 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
  • But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up. -- Robert Benchley
  • I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. -- Judith Viorst
  • I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.' -- Joan Jett
  • 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
  • Presidential candidates don't chew gum. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
  • Television is bubble-gum for the mind -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Jason Sudeikis is always chewing gum. -- Bill Hader
  • Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains. -- Dave Barry
  • I don't know how people chew gum all day long. -- Mireille Enos
  • The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff. -- Chloe Sevigny
  • I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life. -- James Garner
  • I rationalize shop. I buy a dress because I need change for gum. -- Rita Rudner
  • Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card. -- Charles M. Schulz
  • I cant live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things. -- Kelis
  • Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss -- Diablo Cody
  • The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone. -- Dave Grohl
  • I'm here to chew gum and kick some ass, and I'm all out of gum. -- Stephen Hawking
  • The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers. -- Reggie Jackson
  • Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. -- Mary Schmich
  • Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back. -- Robert A. Taft
  • I hate when people are chomping their gum, even though I do it. I hate that. -- Kendall Jenner
  • Last Halloween I ran out of candy and I had to give the kids nicotine gum. -- David Letterman
  • By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head! -- C. S. Lewis
  • Red candy is my favorite - I like red string licorice, Swedish Fish, and red gum balls. -- Dylan Lauren
  • O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines -- Jean Toomer
  • Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep. -- Dave Matthews
  • Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum! -- Anthony Horowitz
  • You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper. -- Allan Kaprow
  • We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long. -- Joe Walsh
  • My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song. -- Avril Lavigne
  • If you want to be a true revolutionist, you must first quit chewing gum, because revolution requires high seriousness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel, Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table. -- GZA
  • The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come." -- Leonard Cohen
  • The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come. -- Leonard Cohen
  • I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me. -- Alice Cary
  • Presents? We already bought you a lot of things. Member when we were at the market and I bought you gum? You'member. -- George Lopez
  • So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium. -- John Mason Brown
  • Did they practice looking suspicious in mirrors? Welcome to the United States. Don't even think about chewing gum the wrong way.' (Carlos) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots. -- Margaret Cho
  • Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods. -- Thomas Boswell
  • For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going. -- Brie Larson
  • Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite? -- Lonnie Donegan
  • INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan's mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone. -- John Piper
  • You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it. -- Twyla Tharp
  • Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice. -- Julie Halston
  • Between the journeymen, vampires crouched like monstrous gargoyles: hairless, corded with a tight network of steel-hard muscle, and smeared in lime-green and purple sunblock. Bubble-gum-tinted nightmares. -- Ilona Andrews
  • When I was 10, we drove to Disney World. When we arrived, what impressed me most was the meticulous attention to detail; there wasn't a gum wrapper anyplace. -- Jason Kilar
  • My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed. -- Jennifer Tilly
  • I have a deal with a company that's going to do cards without the gum. I don't like sugarless gum, and I don't think it's much better for you. -- Paul Reubens
  • If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality. -- Johnnetta B. Cole
  • Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You better not be over here chewing gum. -- David Letterman
  • 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
  • Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • I'm no gumshoe, but I think I have gum on my shoe. Either that or I'm stuck in place because I'm afraid to take the first step in a new direction. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Ambassador Winters, allow me to introduce my aunt Abby and her....boyfriend.' Townsed tensed. Abby glared. And Rebecca Baxter looked like she was going to choke on her chewing gum. -- Ally Carter
  • Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life -- Walt Whitman
  • The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . . -- Andy Warhol
  • It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum. -- A. J. Liebling
  • I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his office, and he'd feed us gum under the desk. -- John F. Kennedy Jr.
  • If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, "Okay, it has a lot of taste," and continuing to chew it. -- Jaco Van Dormael
  • What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. -- Oriana Fallaci
  • Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real. -- Erik Naggum
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  • I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints! -- Alice Englert
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