Bubble Gum Quotes

• 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

  Ice Cream, Years, Fans

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• I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

  Roddy Piper

  Funny, Badass, Wrestling

  Rowdy Roddy Piper, Robert Picarello (2002). “In The Pit With Piper”, p.78, Penguin

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• Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

  Hank Ketcham

  Inspirational, Cynical, Gum

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• Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

  Mary Schmich

  Worry, Trying, Gum

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.31, Agate Digital

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• I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Smell, Gum, Bubbles

  "Karl Lagerfeld Talks Gay Marriage, Guns, Kim Kardashian & More" by Christina Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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• My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Dance, Song

  "Talking to Avril Lavigne". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. February 25, 2008.

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• Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

  Mary Schmich

  Real, Worry, Tuesday

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.31, Agate Digital

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• The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Gum, Stuff, Realism

  Source: collider.com

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• Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mind, Television, Gum

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.

  James Garner

  Gum, Cards, Collections

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• There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.

  Mat Kearney

  Song, Real, Challenges

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

  Leonard Cohen

  Waiting, Miracle, Sound

  Song: Waiting For The Miracle, Album: The Future, 1992

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• You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

  Allan Kaprow

  Gum, Teach, Colour

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• The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

  Reggie Jackson

  Years, Faces, Cards

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• Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Baseball, Cards

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• Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Mother, Running

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• 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

  Baseball, Smell, Special

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• And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Race, Talking, Next

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss

  Diablo Cody

  Gum, Vodka, Junkie

  Diablo Cody (2005). “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper”, p.57, Penguin

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• The waiter just flashed me something that said, "Chew bubblegum." Every morning, when I was about to go to the Oprah competition, my friend used to say this line in a video game to me: "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum." There's a strict policy that you can't encourage anyone on a reality show, that would give them an edge.

  Zach Anner

  Morning, Reality, Games

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

  Alan Beck

  Cutting, Boys, Hair

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• Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

  John Mason Brown

  Eye, Television, Gum

  Interview, 28 July 1955, quoted in James B. Simpson, Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957).

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• 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

  Baseball, Yankees, Smell

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.

  Leif Garrett

  Sex, Frustration, Giving

  "Leif Garrett to Justin Bieber: 'Don't believe your own publicity'". Interview with Diana Falzone, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2013.

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• There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition.

  Tom Robbins

  Average, Challenges, Bulldogs

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.323, Bantam

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