Spunk Quotes

• Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. If you think you’re still a young pup, then maybe you are, no matter what the calendar says.

  John Grogan

  Thinking, Curiosity, Pups

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• Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.

  James Agee

  Success, Gumption, Enough

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.115, Penguin

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• Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sarcastic, Eggs, White

  Letter to Edward Garnett, 3 July 1912, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, p. 134

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• Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

  Peter McWilliams

  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• You got spark You you got spunk You you got something all the girls want

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Flirty, Want

  Song: Love Like Yours, Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• It's no use to decide what's going to happen unless you have the courage of your convictions. Many a brilliant idea has been lost because the man who dreamed it lacked the spunk of the spine to put it across.

  Amadeo Giannini

  Men, Ideas, Use

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• There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

  Ethel Waters

  Battle, Cry, Crisis

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• I'd like to be called Ransom Spunk or Spunk Ransom.

  Robert Pattinson

  Ransom

  "'Twilight' stars answer more of fans' burning questions: Robert Pattinson's nickname, Kristen Stewart's Kklutziness and more". Fans' Burning Questions, www.mtv.com. May 27, 2008.

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• I was 40-something years old. I hadn't shown any entrepreneurial spunk up until that point.

  Alex Blumberg

  Years, Entrepreneurial

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If I'm going to spunk £500 on a pair of designer shoes, it's going to be a pair that I can a) dance to 'Bad Romance' in and b) will allow me to run away from a murderer, should one suddenly decide to give chase.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Shoes, Giving

  "How To Be a Woman".

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