Comma Pump

Famous quotes containing the words comma and/or pump:

“From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. “After dinner, the men moved into the living room.” I explained to the professor that this was Ross’s way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)

“The daughters of delight now pump iron.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)