Famous quotes containing the words pump and/or action:
“The daughters of delight now pump iron.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)