Jumbo QUOTES

1 " Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

2 " It's a sweet setup, I'll admit. For all that the maids STILL show up each day with jumbo crucifixes, jumpy movements, and red eyes from crying over the short straw that drew them vampire duty.' Yesterday, she'd just stopped herself from raising her clenched hands above her head and chasing one of them around the room groaning, 'I vant to suck your blood. "

― Kresley Cole , A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark, #1)

3 " Yotsuba: I’ll get revenge! … I’m going!

Jumbo (in a suffering manner): Yotsuba… please, come back alive…

Yotsuba (heroic): Alright. Even if I die… I’ll come back alive.

—–Yotsuba! "

― Kiyohiko Azuma , Yotsuba&!, Vol. 03 (Yotsuba&! #3)

4 " Large Squares, 1965 -Last Beetle
The body is much the same as the previous model, aside from increase in window size all round. Door handles and lock mechanisms also changed as well as seat and dashboard designs. Chrome beading became thinner, mounting holes for these also smaller. Chrome was later replaced by black anodizing or plastic to try and modernize the Bug. Tail light clusters changed from the oval shape to the ‘headstone’ and then the ‘elephant’s foot’ jumbo units the bug saw its last days with. In 1965 new larger windows all round. 1966 saw the last 6v bug, and also the first 1300cc motor. Those horrible little air vents behind the rear side windows came out in 1971 that caused lots of rusty bugs. Sloping headlights looked much nicer but went out in 1967. "

― Christina Engela , Bugspray

5 " Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our thinking and our actions, if we don’t want our conscience to be backfired on. (“Twilight of desire”) "

― Erik Pevernagie

6 " Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort that they could easily avoid, and the other half muttering meaningless mumbo jumbo in empty churches at all hours of the day and night. They deliberately shunned anything good—girls, sports, feasting and family life. "

― Ken Follett , The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)

7 " I thought it was foolish mumbo jumbo when I was alive - then I woke up dead. "

― C.V. Hunt , Danse Macabre

8 " [David] Wallerstein discovered that people would spring for more popcorn and soda- a lot more- as long as it came in a single gigantic serving. Thus was born the two-quart bucket of popcorn, the sixty-four-ounce Big Gulp, and, in time, the Big Mac and the jumbo fries. "

― Michael Pollan , The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

9 " Hey, bodyguard. You better get down to the gymnasium. This jumbo pixie guy is killing your sister." " Really?" said Butler, unconvinced. " Really. Juliet just does not seem to be herself. She can't put two moves together. It's pathetic, really. Everybody is betting against her." " I see," said Butler, straightening. Mulch held the door. " It's going to make things really interesting when you show up to help." Butler grinned. " I'm not coming to help. I just want to be there when she stops faking." " Ah," said Mulch, comprehension dawning on his face. " So I should switch my bet to Juliet?" " You certainly should" said Butler. "

10 " Grocery shopping was intimidating...the aisles were filled with everything from jumbo to miniature travel-sized rations. Who could I call to ask, “Does the size even matter?” I dare not ask my ex-wife. "

― Tez Brooks , The Single Dad Detour: Directions for Fathering After Divorce

11 " In an essay titled A View From the Front Line, Jencks described her experience with cancer as like being woken up midflight on a jumbo jet and then thrown out with a parachute into a foreign landscape without a map:" There you are, the future patient, quietly progressing with other passengers toward a distant destination when, astonishingly (Why me?) a large hole opens in the floor next to you. People in white coats appear, help you into a parachute and — no time to think — out you go." You descend. You hit the ground....But where is the enemy? What is the enemy? What is it up to?...No road. No compass. No map. No training. Is there something you should know and don't?" The white coats are far, far away, strapping others into their parachutes. Occasionally they wave but, even if you ask them, they don't know the answers. They are up there in the Jumbo, involved with parachutes, not map-making. "