Chunk Quotations

I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.

When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.

I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.'

I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.

The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites.

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.

When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.

The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.

It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are inventible, remembered from some other time or stolen from other people's stories... and see if I can make it into something that works, an object, a little machine that runs.

We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life.

I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me and I have a chunk of time when I'm a single woman living in my house for a miraculous week, I will get to write at different hours.

Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

There is no need for biting in the game. I brought it to the attention of the referee and if the authorities can see it on TV, they will see him trying to take a chunk out of my arm, ... otherwise you couldn't have scripted it better.

We're seeing a huge surge in membership from companies that see Shanghai and China as a big chunk of their Asia opportunity.

Whenever you have a big chunk of people coming in at once, it takes a while to get everyone on track.

We're at an extremely dangerous situation where home heating bills could be shockingly high this winter, ... This is very bad news especially in the northeast part of the country, where the population represents a pretty big chunk of national retail sales.

We hope a large chunk of people using the airport will make other arrangements, including having friends and family drop them off and pick them up.

When you buy, you'll put down a large chunk of your savings upfront, which is also money you now can't invest anywhere else,

Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content.

No place in there does he have Medicare protection. You need to lay aside a big chunk of money at the get-go for Medicare.

(But) we're talking ice a millimeter thick just adhering to the outer surface of the wing. A big chunk of clear ice. I've never heard of anything like that.

I make a playlist for every character I portray. Music plays a huge part in helping me understand a character. Every time I get a new role, I will take a chunk of time to just sit and listen to a bunch of songs and select the ones that make sense in my mind for that character. I can't even explain how much it helps me.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

If I put $60 a week into gas, that a huge chunk of my disposable income even for a moderate income household.

Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.

Gibbons is at somewhat of an advantage because he represents such a huge chunk of the state. He starts with some name ID that other candidates don't start with, so they may have to start (advertising) earlier.

I don't think it's reasonable for him to be skating and feeling the way he would need to for next Tuesday. But five or six days after that, which is a pretty big chunk of time, is the window that the doctors are talking about.

GM may have to enter this situation and take a good chunk of Delphi back.

The people who aren't going to vote aren't going to vote if you give them two months. But if you have any kind of political organization, this is a political gold mine. If you are a well-organized township or Chicago ward, you can get a good chunk of your vote way before the election.

Going out to 2010, the segment stays very steady at one million, 1.1 million units, which is a chunk of the market.

He's played with (the broken thumb), that's not the issue. This week at work he took a chunk out of his finger, a pretty good chunk. They had to pull the skin back to be able to sew it up. The doctors just didn't want him using it until next Monday.

It applies to corporate giving as well. If you have a company that says, 'We're pledging a million dollars to disaster relief,' well, a good chunk of that is probably going to come out of what they give to some other group.

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

Law is a personal service business and building a firm is very much tied to building personal relationships. I spend a good chunk of my time as I travel building and maintaining personal relationships with existing partners and colleagues and developing new relationships with clients and recruits. Lawyers who can work anywhere tend to want to join a firm where they can be successful and where they can have friends and be liked.

Overall, across the country in the last five years, we've tripled in size, and a large chunk of that has come from the Midwest.

Rent is often the largest chunk of a family's monthly budget. So the concern would be that these families would be tempted to use money they don't have by putting it on plastic.

Nagasaki is not just a few hazy images. I remember it as a real chunk of my life.

I think most of our lives are made up of both things visible and things interior, with a large chunk of them being interior.

Judging awards is a big chunk out of our working life and judges have very little time to spend on each entry.

That was an anxious moment there, ... There were things going through my mind like, 'How many times can I chunk it into the water from here?'

That's usually a big chunk of the sightseeing itinerary,

Most of the guys here are lucky if they make $16 a month, ... Now (the Legion) wants $22 a year. That's a huge sacrifice. It's a big chunk of change for us.

We're working to fix this mischief. This cuts a big chunk of money. It hurts.

Using this image of raising the flag is an image that says 'look, we want a strong Saskatchewan in a strong Canada, and a chunk of getting there is a solid energy accord to develop the resources of Saskatchewan,

We're losing nine guys, that's a huge chunk of this program. We have got to concentrate on the younger guys and get them out there quickly.

We have been aggressively reinvesting our net income to deliver new energy supplies in the U.S. and to the world market. A big chunk of our refining in the U.S. is to meet U.S. energy demands and supplies.

We thought after having gone through their top order twice in Centurion and with the moisture in the wicket here, we backed ourselves to get a big chunk in their batting order.

We're not poor, but that's a chunk of dough,

We backed our bowlers to take a big chunk out of their batting order, and in the first two or three hours we created a lot of chances. But I would have to say the gamble hasn't paid off.

When you look at 26 pay periods on average and divide that into $70, it's really not going to be huge change in your take-home pay. But, cumulative, this will be a big chunk of change by the time 2010 rolls around. This is a $2.2 billion income tax cut.

We're talking about six acres with mature trees. You just can't buy trees like that. The city is basically getting a multimillion-dollar chunk of land returned to it.

This was another step forward for this team to be able to win a game with Matt Bird on the bench for a big chunk of it. It shows us that we are more than a one-man team.

Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.

We are still kind of stuck in this 4.67-4.77 percent range and I guess the reversal in oil is what kind of took a chunk out of equities and resumed a modest bid in bonds.

Even the biggest hits, even The Sopranos on HBO, even Desperate Housewives is 20 million viewers. We're in a country of . . . 297 million people, almost 300 million. That's a pretty small chunk of it.

Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.

A significant chunk of this operation will target the big cities - especially Delhi and Mumbai - as we would like to tap these markets first.

Electronics is certainly carving a big chunk of money out of the pockets of shoppers. Back-to-school is increasingly about how cool is your phone, or how new and cool is your notebook -- that $1,350 notebook -- and students are judging each other by their gizmos at least as much as by their clothing.

There's probably a 5 to 10 percent premium in construction costs for a high-performance, sustainable school. For a high school that may cost $50 million, that's a chunk of change.

The resources are large enough to generate significant volumes of power, ... There could one day be plants supplying more than 1,000 megawatts of power if the market allowed it, which is theoretically a good chunk of the 1,200 megawatts required to power South Australia.

There's so much debt got drawn up from last year's bad returns, another year like that is going to make it difficult for a significant chunk of the industry to survive.

I've stayed almost every summer, and most of the girls in my class do too. There's usually a good chunk of the team here during the summer.

It would be actually foolish for me to spend a big chunk of money in a straw poll,

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.

A fair chunk of people signing up for this course are from the public sector, ... But surprisingly there is a lot of interest from utility companies and financial services where there is obviously a strong adherence to procedures and processes.

Someone took a big chunk of the auction, so we are seeing strong short-covering now in very technical trade.

An inadequate energy supply will increase the cost of doing business for every company in America, ... That means that the cost to produce everything increases, and all of us will spend a bigger chunk of our paycheck simply paying those rising costs. We will see those higher prices in grocery stores and every other place that we may shop.

An important chunk of Apple's market is people who use Adobe applications. Those folks are going to stay away from the new machines until they're sure their software works.

The way we recycle unwanted tickets needs improving. A whole chunk are given to FIFA to redistribute and suddenly you can get a four-week sales process to recycle them.

This doesn't change the size of the pie that people are fighting for. It just makes it more likely that Microsoft will get a bigger chunk of it without the government interfering.

A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big chunk out of schools budgets. The biggest issue is cost, basically.

There seems to be a lot of mixed feelings on the issue. Voters seem to be split into three different camps on the big picture question, and a good chunk didn't know if they fell into any of them.

At a lot of Vanguard funds the minimum investment is $3,000. That's a big chunk of money.

A big chunk of those are teachers we put in high-poverty schools to increase the teacher-to-student ratio.

According to him (Paul), shots were definitely fired -- one of them hit him. He was grazed on his chest. You can see it. There's a bullet-shaped chunk missing (from the right side of his chest).

It's just on tables. We encourage people during musical worship to get up and get their own piece of bread. A lot of people with families will break off a chunk of bread and get a glass of wine and go back to their table and have communion as a family. I don't put a lot of restrictions on it. For us right now there are a lot of people who really desire the Lord deeply, and if you put up more up roadblocks, they might get discouraged and just pitch it all. We really believe in erring on the sake of it's OK.

It's just not that big a chunk of the budget. You've got to go where the money is. There's a lot of rhetoric about spending restraint, but there's been no serious effort to actually address the deficit. Part of the problem is there's no consensus on how to do it.

It seems so tied to the price of oil, that it's very hard to forecast what stocks will do next. On balance the message of the markets for the last nine trading sessions, including today, seems to have shifted to say that the price of oil is taking a chunk out of consumer spending.

It seems, like with the guys, there will be a chunk of teams at the top (of the conference) and a chunk at the bottom.

It's a very big chunk of energy, there's no question about that.

It's a large chunk of time out of the instructional day and it's large chunk of time out of the instructional year. The Connecticut test is a good test. It has open ended (questions) and is a good assessment. That makes it more palatable.

For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.

For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.

It's not describable. It's a big chunk of our family. It's just gone.

It's not describable. A whole chunk of our family is just gone. We're all kind of numb, trying to figure out what happens next.

It's a local project that got a big chunk of money and then had problems. Members don't forget that.

That's a big chunk of who we are and what we do, but everybody else filled in the gaps. It was almost like they were extremely pleased to hear that Gilbert was out, but we believed in ourselves.

Everyone I've ever known in my life, or seen, or met, or loved, or hated, is at risk of being destroyed. That's a pretty big chunk of fear, and I think that's what we are all dealing with, if we don't save the day.

Everyone's going to be looking at significant increases related to heating costs. It is going to be a significant chunk out of people's pockets and wallets.

The big draw with Nevada is it doesn't have a state income tax and it is affordable. People can sell their homes in California and put a big chunk of money in their pocket, move to Las Vegas and have a nicer house for a lot less money.

The biggest chunk of what you might see in other compensation is radio and TV.

The biggest issue right now is that natural-gas prices and winter heating bills are probably going to be up 30 percent versus last year. And for a good chunk of the country, that matters even more than the price of filling up the SUV," ()

The bank called me and told me to expect a big negative chunk because Northwest had declared bankruptcy and gone back and reversed the payments.

It's both. Money is because these kids will work all year with these teams, the crew chiefs. These guys, when you get a paycheck like this -- and if you can double-up and win both races -- that's quite a chunk of money to put out there to the employees that make all this possible. Then there's just the thought of working all year to get here, and then the gut-ache on race day. If you win it's victory, if you lose it's gut-ache. Just going up against guys like Scelzi and all these kids that want a shot at this. I really get up for it. It's really big if you can win it because it's two races in one. That's what's a turn-on for me.

It's very important to see others than those of us coming in with a big chunk of money participating in the university's expansion. People who give $100 or $1,000 are just as important as those who give $1 million.

It took a chunk out of the back of his finger.