Best Chum Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded.”

Needs Long Government House Water Pay Sells Criminals Boat Meat San Francisco Tourists Discarded Excursions Expired Chum Alcatraz

Author:L. Neil Smith

“You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.”

Thinking Men Girl Beats Chum

Author:Carl Andre

“I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.”

Years Made Fun Class My Favorite Ruling Chum

Author:Peter O'Toole

“You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.”

Knows Dog Yeah Legs Mates Drag Cigarette Nighttime Night Time Smashing Chum

Author:Norman Wisdom

“Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.”

Looks Problem Fields Suits Hey Talkative Buttercup Chum

Book:The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye

Source: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye

“You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!”

Company Maturity Mature Chum

Author:Witold Gombrowicz

“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”

People Used Found Acceptable Adjectives Chum Teetotalers

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”

People Used Found Adjectives Chum Teetotalers

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?”

Dad Chicks Chum

Author:Stephen King

“And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.”

Wave Shore Farewell Donne Chum

Book:The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company.”

Bits My Own Company Loneliness Bother Chips Chum

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.”

Want Hate House Wonderful Sea I Hate Paint Cooks Damn Kitchen Gray Hate You I Hate You Booze Damn Good Chum

Author:Ava Gardner

“When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.”

Real Self Done Character Voice Teacher Teaching Style Example College Accents Extensions Transparent Jersey New Jersey Artifice Cringe Her Smile Chum

Book:Writing Life Stories

Source: Writing Life Stories

“My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.”

Written Reader Dear Privilege Honour Hello Written Word Hearty Chum

Author:Miranda Hart

“At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!”

Ifs Two Hands Age Pieces Aging Diets Birthday Cake Balanced 50th Birthday Birthday Cake Chum Balanced Diet

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

Years Children Book Ends Parent Boys Huge Males Bounds Following British Christmas Christmas Present Chum

Author:A. E. van Vogt

“My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.”

Thinking Trying Mind Humanity Grows Process Space Crazy Evolution Shapes Unique Insightful Awkward Expansion Thumbs Snaps Cerebral Going Crazy My Space Chum

Author:Lily Tomlin

“What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.”

Play Life Is Rooms Sitting Your Room Cabaret Sitting Alone Chum Play Life

Author:Fred Ebb

“Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the Cabaret.”

Life Is Cabaret Sitting Alone Chum

Author:Fred Ebb

“My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.”

Thinking Hands Reality Three Space Views Pieces Method Crowds Suits Primitive Absurdity Dressed Up My Space Chum

Author:Jane Wagner

“No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.”

Men Looks Use Hands Cases Dog One Day Six Empty South Fingers Checks Snow Cups Tea March Tents Cups Of Tea Girly Chum

Author:Allison Pearson

“I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.”

Firsts Used Fun Audience Goes On Crowds Having Fun Host Really True Chum

Author:Norman Wisdom

“It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.”

Values Israel Palestinian Chairman Hamas Arafat Chum

Author:Mark Steyn

“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

Years Firsts Science Fiction Science Fiction British Annuals Chum

Author:A. E. van Vogt

“I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.”

Vision Fields Workers Score Silver Flats Towers Pencils Beans Visions Of The Future Chum

Book:Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse

Source: Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse

“A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.”

People Knows Trying War Together Courses Sides Differences Perfect Streets New York Rain Crowds Stranger Doorways Chum Perfect Strangers

Author:Larry Gelbart

“I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.”

Night Drug Drinking Alcohol Wounds Hungry Ran Bottles Bites All Night Drugs And Alcohol Rum Chum

Author:Jimmy Buffett