Back And Forth Quotes

• You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

  Alison McGhee

  Powerful, People, Expectations

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• Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Moving, People, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

  Hilary Swank

  Artist, Giving, Give And Take

  Source: collider.com

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• Did you think you could dump me, and I'd bounce back to her and miraculously be happy? I'm not a Ping-Pong ball. You can't just swat me back and forth and expect me to be content wherever I land. If Tod dumped you tomorrow, would you come back to me?

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Land, Balls

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, 2006.

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• Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Moving, Reality

  "Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author: A Conversation between Maurice Sendak and Virginia Haviland". Book by Virginia Haviland, 1970.

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• Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

  Mitch Albom

  Want, Life Is, Don't Take Anything For Granted

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.40, Broadway Books

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• Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Art, Simple

  Ray Bradbury (1955). “THE OCTOBER COUNTRY”

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• They say I'm young, but my purpose is the inspiration of a nation, innovation 'till I change the talk into a conversation. I'm like a doctor and my patients are anxiously waiting; healing all the hatin' that fakin' in the paper chasing. It's hard to live up to these expectations that I'm facing, and gain the admiration of an older generation. That's why I'm pacing back and forth, contemplatin' mediatatin', how to use what I've been taught is a positive force.

  Tyler James Williams

  Inspiration, Healing, Doctors

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• I think theres a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

  Regis Philbin

  Thinking, Ions, Flying

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• Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

  David Corbett

  Character, Events, Stories

  David Corbett (2013). “The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV”, p.41, Penguin

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• I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

  Jackie French

  People, Pages

  "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• I know I personally get a little rusty when I've jumped back and forth.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Littles, Knows

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  Nathan Lane

  Moving, Careers, Want

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• The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.

  Rick Bass

  Heart, Men, Wire

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• Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It’s what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn’t work. You’re my balance wheel, Poppy.” -Harry Rutledge

  Lisa Kleypas

  Moving, Hands, Balance

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.293, Macmillan

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• Hey. (She took his chin in her hand so that she could move his head back and forth while she examined him.) You’re hurting in there. That would make akri very sad. He doesn’t like for his Dark-Hunters to hurt and the Simi don’t like it when akri is sad. Why are you hurt? (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Moving, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2015). “Winter's Night”, p.234, Macmillan

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• The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Hurt, Tuesdays With Morrie, Opposites

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• His gold eyes grew very soft. “You said you loved me.” “You knew that already,” I reminded him, ducking my head. “It was nice to hear, just the same.” I hid my face against his shoulder. “I love you,” I whispered. “You are my life now,” he answered simply. There was nothing more to say for the moment. He rocked us back and forth as the room grew lighter.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Nice, Love You, Eye

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• Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Ideas, Looks

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.71, Allison & Busby

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• Kaiaphas. I see you finally made some friends. You must have learned to use a toothbrush at last. You know it’s the whole up and down, back and forth that confuses people…or demons. (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Use, Lasts

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• As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.

  Dan Brown

  Moving, Moon, Littles

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• There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Boys, Loving You

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• And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Animal, Rocks

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.

  Zadie Smith

  Children, Moving, Islands

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

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• Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

  Martha Graham

  Past, Rocks, Chairs

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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