Bumper Quotations

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.

Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to little kids to playing a game, which is the controller. You can't hand a basic video game controller to a child and expect them to understand what a left bumper is and to click in the right stick.

There got to be so many people out there, cars were bumper to bumper and it became an unsafe situation. The university and us were both aware of it. We decided at that time to go to a draw hunt.

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.

There are more jokes about losers than there are books about losers. The most common volumes you see written about them are the bumper stickers during the next administration: Don't blame me; I voted for the loser.

The Reagan memorabilia runs the gamut of his life, everything from an original bumper sticker from the 1980 election to magazine covers and T-shirts. It just shows that Reagan had many admirers.

Last year, there was a bumper crop of food-borne illnesses from FDA-regulated foods.

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.

If I wasn't going to win, I wanted Brian to. He moved down to block me, but I had just barely got my bumper under him.

What is benefitted properties of the lake? Is it just those that are adjacent to the lake or, as in Rice Lake, is it the Lake District, the entire city and properties on the west side of Rice Lake? ... Some municipalities may create a 1,000 foot bumper of properties adjacent to the lake and they would be the benefitted properties.

Guys are doing it in the middle of the corner, coming off it and coming on. It's softening the front bumper because it's the guys that are doing the hitting. Trust me, I did my share of it, too.

The owner of the car had gotten out and left the child in the car with the engine running. The child got out of the car seat and put the car in gear and ran over the owner of the car. She was pinned between the bumper of her car and Acceptance Insurance.

I watched the tape, and I know how he did it. He was relentless. He just drove up under everybody's bumper until they got out of his way. That's what he did. We'll have to do it that way.

SUVs can have the same utility they do today and still be equipped with decent bumper systems that extend down to where they match up with those on cars, ... Until then, motorists who bump into mismatched vehicles, even at very low speeds, will have no choice but to open their wallets.

My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.

We need another bumper yield like we had last year or this is going to be a very difficult year to make ends meet.

We have had some bumper figures from Exxon and that augurs well for Shell later in the week.

Well, then we're happy. Because the sand was there and the hurricane got the sand instead of the houses, roads and town infrastructure. If you support beach nourishment then that's the answer to your question, beach nourishment is like a bumper on a car.

We left Sunday around 1 p.m. and the traffic was absolutely bumper to bumper.

To me, the peace sign is about supporting our troops. I feel like I have to have bumper stickers now. It (angers) some people ... I don't want to offend people ... (but) I can't just sit there and take it.

When you look at the Volkswagen, the bumper of the pick-up truck forced itself all the way back to the top of the roof of the car. That indicates that he was coming so fast that he was literally underneath that Ford F-150.

This was the one that I really wanted to leave the most, you know? We left and got to the interstate. Traffic was bumper to bumper, not moving, so we turned around and came back home.

Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off about collecting beer cans.

Fertilizer costs are up big-time, and fuel costs went from $13,000 to $19,000 (for an average farm), and that's a huge increase. The concern is, what happens if we don't get that bumper crop next year? It's not likely that livestock is going to continue to be as profitable as it was last year.

There's half a day of education and half a day of fun. A senior might be figuring out the volume of the bumper boat pond, a kindergarten student might be counting the number of putts ... the kids obviously love it, and the educators like it because it gives a hands-on experience. There's a lot of things here that just lend themselves to that.

The one thing I can say is that at the end of the race the bump drafting picked up, and looking at my bumper and knowing the bump drafting that I was doing, the bumper wasn't damaged. We might have to soften them up another notch.

Sometimes I hear it in his voice, but anyway, at the end of the day he's the shiny bumper bar.

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

The brace works like a bumper on your car. It absorbs the load. So a lot of the load isn't distributed through the body, it's actually distributed through the brace.

There's a bumper sticker, 'He who dies with the most toys wins,' ... That's not quite my philosophy, but close. I'm not looking to amass size (in the collection) as much as cool things when they show up.

It's not like Big Brother; it's a sentence that's trying to do the right thing, the appropriate thing to guarantee the community's safety, ... It's not going to be in their car forever, but it's going to be there to demonstrate that they've learned to drive appropriately so that there's one less person who is sitting two inches off your bumper at 80 mph.

The back tail lights and the bumper and that's about it on the car that got hit.

Supporting our troops is not a bumper sticker. It's more than that, and we have to get out there and do something tangible.

It totally gets us out of the box. We're sitting in our cubes trying to do work, working on computers, pumping out proposals and now we're sitting in a bumper car approaching our co-workers at 12 miles an hour ramming them and hoping the ball falls out of their little stick. It's totally different but it's a really good time.

It's not a bumper crop and the size is down a little, ... But, the flavor has been good, and the sugar and starch is right.

I know the difference between trying to stop NHL stars like these guys and playing in the Italian league. It's Formula One and bumper cars.

I knew if I could get up his rear bumper I had a chance. I knew where I wanted to be but I couldn't get there.

I never got close enough to his bumper to find out how good he was. . . . He knows how to get around this place good. He was smooth and fast and made some great moves.

I have to admit, I was a little timid with it up there. I knew it was there and it was softer, but I am really trying not to bump draft. I've gotten myself into more trouble at plate tracks than I care to, so I'm just going to keep my bumper to myself.

I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob.

I don't really want to win races like that. That doesn't take a whole bunch of talent to knock a guy out of the way. Racing tight is one thing, but to get a run in the middle of the corner and get the guy's bumper all at once - it is what it is.

If I come bumper to bumper with you on Monday, I'm going to punch your headlights out.

I don't like to vote for things on serious issues that might look good on a bumper sticker but which I know have so many loopholes that they won't work.

For some of those things to be said in a bumper sticker is really disgusting. I think Lubbock is better than that and I think the citizens of Lubbock are much better and see through something like that for what it is.

You want the traffic to thin out. You don't want it bumper to bumper. Then you have multi-vehicle accidents.

And I do think the whole issue of having a positive agenda is somewhat over-rated in politics. A lot of politics is in reaction to how bad the person you're running against is. But Democrats do believe that by the middle of next year they've got to come up with a few bumper sticker points that they can run on and they probably will.