Gum Quotes

“Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!”
― Anthony Horowitz, Skeleton Key

“The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“She wasn't actually chewing gum, but her demeanor was very much that of a gum chewer.”
― Gail Honeyman

“Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after Wilde:

Wilde, Oscar (of the wallpaper in his bedroom): “Either it goes, or I do.”
Wilding, Adelyn (of the gum splooches on the sidewalk): “Ditto.””
― Roberta Pearce, Famous Penultimate Words

“If you want big improvements, she said, chew gum. Gum? Sure enough, chewing gum has been shown to improve a person's immediate recall of learned words by some 24 percent. Long-term recall improves by a larger 36 percent. To get the benefit, you actually have to chew gum as you are studying; for some reason you can't merely move your jaw up and down. I also discovered that drinking sage tea increases one's recall of words modestly, as does the odor of rosemary. Something as mundane as coffee provides a benefit, too. Drinking two cups of coffee increases neuronal activity in the frontal lobe, where working memory is controlled, and in the anterior cingulum, where attention is controlled.”
― Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners

“The Brain is a chewed gum.”
― Deyth Banger

“Remember: if there is gum on the mantelpiece in the first chapter, it must go on something by the last chapter.”
― Howard Mittelmark, Sandra Newman

“Indulgent Reader, up till now I have concealed it, but I must confess at last. I have one besetting weakness, a weakness that amounts to a vice. I am ashamed of it. Often I have tried to wean myself of it; often cursed the heredity that imposed it on me. Opium? Morphine? Cocaine? Nothing so fashionable. Absinth? Brandy? Gin? Nothing so normal. Alas! let me whisper it in your ear: I am a Chewing Gum Fiend!”
― Robert W. Service, The Pretender: A Story of the Latin Quarter

“CV. Media Mitra Indonesia – is a company in the field of trade in natural Gum Damar / Dammar Gum (Shorea Javanica) from Indonesia. Supported by high commitment and guided by ethical values in running a business, we prioritize the form of long-term cooperation.”
― gumdamar

“[William Wrigley, the chewing gum tycoon] was the first man to discover that American jaws must wag. So why not give them something to wag against?”
― Will Rogers

“Joe Larsen chewed sugarless gum very hard. He walked around and around in a little circle of annoyance near the door.”
― Grace Paley, Later the Same Day