Jumbo Quotes

Who's kidding whom? What's the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Quart and full quart? Two-ounce and big two-ounce? What does Extra Long mean? What's a tall 24-inches? And what busy shopper can tell? - Marya Mannes

When Jumbo Poker began in 2003, the poker frenzy was just beginning. Back then when Jumbo Poker hit, we?d be happy to see a few dozen players splitting the pot. Now, even at 4 a.m. when today?s bad beat happened, there were over 250 players sitting in our rooms. - Weldon Russell

What you really need here, more than the mumbo-jumbo and formulas, you need time. You need a restoration of confidence, and that takes time. - Tony Dwyer

We take lots of pride in putting lots of crab in our soup here. This is premium, large, jumbo, blue crab from the Chesapeake Bay. - Craig Scott

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. - Thomas J. Peters

We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders... We simply cannot afford to make Israel [9 miles] wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers. - Ehud Olmert

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo. - Zach Wamp

This is the bizarre thing. This exact period I'm writing about is also a period of the most extraordinary scientific and technological achievement, from the mapping of the human genome to the creation of the internet. It seems paradoxical that there should be this proliferation of mumbo jumbo at a time of such immense change and upheaval, but that may be a partial explanation for it. - Francis Wheen

This (teaching happiness) isn't just psycho-babble or mumbo-jumbo. When I heard that Harvard and Cambridge were taking it seriously, that this was something you could teach, I thought it was very interesting. - Anthony Seldon