Bump Quotations

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.

I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.

The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.

To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.

The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England.

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number of people who know me and the people who don't, it's really a small number.

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.

Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.

Some people feel stronger in their 30s. I'm 34. I've noticed I do feel stronger now than when I was 24. But I'm also more sore in the mornings. If I have a bump or a bruise from practice, it takes me a little bit more than just an ice bath to get rid of it. At the end of the week, my body's ready for a day off.

Oh, all southern women say they're sorry. You could do almost anything, bump into some one, don't spread the jam right, you're always sorry. I've had people tell me to stop saying it so much!

I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store.

Whether it was because of a bump or a grab or a hold, we were 13-of-36 (shooting) from two feet (of the basket). That's the thing right now that's holding us back a little bit ... (but) we missed a ton of them.

We respect all of our competitors and listen to them. ...They're out there. They're our only feedback. We know what bump drafting does, we don't know how rough it is until the drivers actually come in and complain about it.

We're going to bump the session now until Dec. 5, ... The feeling was there was just too much uncertainty swirling around both Washington and the campaigns to make the session productive.

We're just about through the earnings season. We have to go through this bump and grind. I think it will probably be like this for several months yet to come, until the market starts to focus on looking beyond the short term to the recovery that surely will follow.

We're back in business today. The snow was a little bump in the road. We have a long year ahead of us. Obviously it affected business. We had some good traffic in the 59th Street store.

With Track Boss' early speed I thought she'd go up pretty fast. Along with her speed, she has a lot of grit. She'll take a bump and keep on trying.

With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story.

We're still human. You bump into somebody, and next thing you know, you're swinging.

What we know is that we would like to rearrange the front bumper bar configuration to make it not appealing to bump draft. At the same time, we have to maintain the integrity of the front end of the race cars for crash purposes. There's a lot of energy absorption in the front bumpers that we run on the cars here.

We had a few different plans, actually. It just depended on where the puck was going to be. 'Pies' made a great play just to be able to bump it back, and I just took out my driver and swung at it, and fortunately the puck went between his legs.

The price of gold has taken a jump. We'll see a bump in gold stocks on that.

We're not bound by a continuing alien threat or a continuing anything. It's whatever goes bump in the night and is spooky, so that gives us a really broad canvas.

Last year, we were selling a new concept. The response we got last year and the huge promotional bump resulted in companies lining up at our door. I literally had to turn away six or seven publishers.

Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Scott is a fine-tuned machine, and he's got to be running on all cylinders. That's his mentality. When he's got a little bump in the road, it takes him a little while to get through that bump, but he's going to be fine.

She dosn't have any physical damage other than a slight bump on the head. So we don't know if she was taking the horse to the pond for a quick drink and the horse spooked. Got bit by a bee. Who knows what. The horse may have bumped her in the head. She fell into the pond. It's not too deep but full of muck and she wasn't able to get out.

No one wants to bump him because they know they are going to get physically manhandled. With his size and speed, he can still get vertical. He had an unbelievable year.

New Hampshire has long been known as a bump in the road for front-runners.

Obviously, I've been pretty consistent. And I've been throwing well. You just hit a speed bump every once in a while. That doesn't mean you stop. You just keep going. This happens to everybody. It's going to happen again.

Postmenopausal women are at an age where they get this little bump in weight. Following this diet isn't going to cause a weight gain.

One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

I wouldn't expect that stuff to take place this weekend, the speeds are too high. We can't bump each other and lean on each other like you would at a short track.

I don?t know that anybody believes we?re actually going to see a bump of $900,000. I seriously doubt we?re going to see one month where we jump a million dollars.

I believe we will see at least one speed bump for POWER chips and probably a bump for SPARC during the course of 2006. In many ways, these chips are harnessed in the Unix systems that are the workhorses of the enterprise infrastructure, where they are running massively large workloads with exacting availability requirements.

I have a pool of candidates. It's got to be a good fit for the system. Every once in a while there's going to be a bump in the road.

I felt a bump in the left rear of the car, and the next thing I know, Ryan was up over me, there was fire, and we were in the wall.

I felt a bump from the left rear of my car. Ryan was up over me. He was upside down and there was a lot of fire. It was just a quick thud.

For vehicles right on the bubble, they can bump them over.

He did well, but we may bump up the time we go out in the morning because Ernesto said the track was cut up a little bit.

He'll bump it up some and two days after that bump it up a little more. Then we will re-evaluate it.

We've been through so much already, it feels like a speed bump right now,

What we want to watch is whether this is a short-term bump or not,

He's just very energetic. He said to me early on that he wanted to be a head coach who was going to be a good recruiter. He was a good recruiter as an assistant. We used to bump heads all the time in Florida and when you went against him you knew you had to - quote, unquote - bring your 'A' game to beat him. He brings a passion to the recruiting part of it. I like that he is a guy who will get his hands dirty a little bit in the recruiting process as far as being out on the road a bunch.

He's going to have to be a little flexible, and we'll work this out. If there's not flexibility on his part, too, we'll probably bump heads a little bit, but we'll make it work.

We may have some zones that we post some added officials in and might be forced to make a call on a bump draft that is unnecessary. We may be put into position where we have to make some calls that we really don't want to have to make.

I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

He just had a bump on his nose.

He knows angles to the basket. He can take a bump and finish. If you can't push him off the block, he's dangerous.

I think it and the others will benefit as we see higher profits from the refining segment as well as from the oil production segment of their business. At Edward Jones, we're long-term investors, so we actually don't set target prices. But I think definitely the stock has room to rise. And I think the merger with Mobil ( MOB ) will in fact provide a bump in the stock price later this year.

It can enhance the excitement of the race. As it transfers to stock cars, and particularly applies to Daytona and Talladega, with the cars running closer together, a bump draft at the right time in the right place is not the worst thing in the world. But it has been turning bump drafting into slam drafting, because the hits just keep getting harder and harder and harder.

I think it's definitely a step in the right direction to make the bump drafting minimal.

It is going to bump us up another level, ... It is remarkable that we have ranked as high as we have with the buildings we have.

I was eating too well and getting too much rest. I take my old lady dancing every night now. Doin' the bump keeps your legs in shape.

I think we played well today. Pitching and defense was immaculate today. All three guys that got on the bump were outstanding.

Ring tones will be a nice little revenue bump for carriers going forward but it's not as if there will be billions and billions of dollars in their pockets tomorrow,

Pianists have the Van Cliburn competition and guitarists have a number of contests, as well, but the electric bass is such a young instrument, relatively speaking, that this sort of thing just hasn't happened until now. Victor and I have been talking about this for a couple of years because we go around the world and we bump in to people who just blow us away. They've been practicing for years on this stuff that nobody's ever heard. They might be well-known players or just hiding out in a practice room working on techniques we don't even known about.

Sponsors have to balance the short-term bump from the Jordan effect with the reality that Jordan won't be playing basketball three to five years from now, while other athletes they need to be focusing on will be.

Spin Coulomb drag results because the motion of spin through the semiconductor is sensitive to collisions between electrons, whereas the transport of charge is not. When electrons bump into one another, the mutual repulsion of their negative charges creates a drag on their spin current, which is a relative motion between individual electrons, but not on their charge current, which is the collective transport of all the electrons in motion.

I think right now the stock market is very comfortable with the benchmark 30-year-bond trading at between 6.5 and 7 percent. But if we start moving that range up to 7.25 and above, that could really be a major speed bump in the way of the stock market.

It didn't seem like too much of a big bump to me. The next thing you know, everything is on the floor.

Man, that official overreacted. I've grabbed women in much the same way and ended up dancing with them. Not once was I ejected. And they were all a lot prettier than he was. Some of them even cost me more than the $15,000 the NFL fined me. I guarantee you I won't touch an official next week, although I may 'accidentally' bump into one while running a pattern.

We'll also discover that things that go bump in the night aren't the only reasons to be afraid in this world.

That was a small bump in the road when considering what others went through.

That was a little bump in the road.

I was nearly blinded when she threw that ring back at me. But I kept it in its little box. If I bump into her again and there isn't a crack pipe in my jacket ...

Most certifications get you a 8.5 percent bump in pay on average, while top ones, like Cisco's CCIE, will get you well beyond that with about a 10 to 15 percent pay premium.

When teams bang him around like they did tonight, it's surprising. But everyone's allowed a speed bump every once in a while.

We just decided to bump up Tyler because he had the most experience. We wanted to put it on the line in the final match.

Will it bump some people out of the ability buy? Yes it will. But I have to laugh when I think of the 1970s and '80s when we had rates in the double-digits.

We hope the leadership will find it in their hearts and minds and budgets to bump us up a bit.

We dominated the game for 35 minutes and we should have been up 4-, 5-, or 6-0. We talked before the game if we hit a bump in the road, we'd just bury it and move on.

We received some complaints, especially from our monthly rental customers, some who thought we were just trying to bump up the price, ... After we explained that the tax was passed by the city council and we had nothing to do with it, nor do we make any money from it, they understood.

We each (China and the United States) believe we are the center of the universe, so naturally we are going to bump up against each other,

We're always critical of him because we want him to cut when he runs with the ball. But he likes to run straight ahead and bump into people. He loves the contact and the physical part of the game.

We're not a strong team (physically). They do bump us off the ball.

We're up 10 percent from the recent bottom, and that's a big bump in a month. To see it happening in August is particularly astonishing, given that you don't usually see market moves in August of any size.

Use visual cues to prompt yourself to put away more. A photograph of the beach house where you and your husband can envision spending your retirement will remind you to bump up the contribution to your 401(k); a snapshot of your child in a college sweatshirt can encourage you to put more into a 529 college savings plan.

We just didn't put the hits together. We got one here and there, we just couldn't put them together. We couldn't bump people over and the pitcher did a good job on keeping us on our toes. I thought we did an OK job in the field. We just didn't put the hits together when we needed them.

We were going to double team him on ball screens and not let him get a comfort zone of coming off the screen with the ball. We were going to bump him every time he tried to go through the lane. The unique thing about it, you can play good defense, but when you can play good defense aggressively as we did without fouling, I think that's a key.

We needed to bump him up to give us a chance. It will only make him better.

The problem was, Katrina was on television 24 hours a day. It was in every paper. The homeless problem is kind of an unseen problem. People don't commonly bump into homeless people. They don't see the problem.

When a poorly known candidate emerges as the alternative to the front-runner in Iowa, that gives the poorly known alternative a bump here. What happens in New Hampshire in the week between the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary is it becomes a two-man race, and that is the way the story is told.

You look at the velocity of tenants out there looking for space, and you can see it's gone up quite a bit. I think it's just a matter of time when the rates bump up.

We definitely made more plays than they did. We accepted the pressure. This was a bump in the road for us.

We didn't take a backward step. We can bump and grind with the best of them and they're the best of them.

What we're trying to do now is to play to our advantage. We're not trying to bump people off the ball, we're not a very physical team. But we're doing what we can in our own way. And it's working for us right now. We are putting up a lot of goals.

We can't play the game of bump drafting like we do at other tracks. That alone changes the race. Here, you don't want anyone around you. At Daytona, you want everyone with you.

We don't believe the evidence found or supported a finding of liability against any of the defendants. And given the plaintiff's injuries, a bump on the head and a bruise on the arm, that $700,000 was excessive.

The record company is happy because they feel they have things that they can play. I'm happy because I feel I have enough records to bump in the street and in the dance hall with the reggae, so I'm cool with that.

We knew that they were going to kind of bump him at the line and have a safety over the top and they did that. We knew that myself and (fellow wide receiver) Drew (Carter) were going to have to make plays and that we were going to have to get the running game going, but we couldn't get anything going.

We knew it was going to be a tough match coming in, because Elizabeth-Forward matches up well with us. We were able to pull out a couple of matches that could have gone either way. We stayed off our backs; that was real important and we were able to bump a couple of kids around that secured a win for us.

To secure a Patrick board endorsement there may be one final bump to the bid on behalf of Toll. Patrick directors are more likely to recommend the current bid albeit maybe with a small sweetener.

There are guys that know how to do it, and there are guys that don't. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that you don't bump someone when you're in a corner at 180 miles an hour.

We've been playing good baseball, and today was just a small bump in the road. Forget about it, come back out tomorrow night and try to win the series. We can do it. We definitely can do it.

We've never really seen a Globes bump like this.