Jumpers Quotes

• With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

  Ray Bradbury

  School, Intellectual, Swimmer

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.

  Allen Carr

  Hero, Home, Suits

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• Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

  Roland Joffe

  Land, Watches, Good Coaches

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• The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

  Ken Curtis

  Roles, Brilliant, Realistic

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• Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.

  Charlie Krueger

  Friendship, Emergencies, Trunks

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• The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Snakes, Rude, Atheism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Blue, Leather Jackets, Jeans

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• The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.

  Mireille Enos

  Jeans, Dresses, Truth Is

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• I got a nice jumper on me, and i'm not just bragging.

  Bow Wow

  Nice, Bragging

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• From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.

  Doug Liman

  Independent, Views, Feet

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• It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

  Tom Stoppard

  Fake People, Freedom, Democracies Have

  Jumpers act 1 (1972) See Nast 1; Somoza 1

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• President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.

  David Letterman

  Holiday, Golf, House

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• If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

  Tom Stoppard

  Would Be, World, Fields

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• You get that horse to really operate as if he’s your legs and you can take that anywhere you want. You can dress up in any kind of clothes you like. You can be a jumper, dressage rider, trail rider, cowboy, anything.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Cowboy, Clothes

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• This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody, but still a decent jumper and a waxen jacket lined with wool is sufficient for every weather England's got to give.

  Zadie Smith

  Blow, Light, Air

  Zadie Smith (2006). “On Beauty”, p.33, Penguin UK

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• My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

  Marv Albert

  Games, Ordinary, Court

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• I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Names, Credit, Pages

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• And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.

  Peter Kenyon

  Suicide, Hero, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.

  John Raese

  Proud, West, Hillbilly

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• The knitted jumper comes in different trends, colours, shapes, and is adaptable in various ways when wearing. But there are also different noticeable marks of Sonia Rykiel brand, like black stripes which are very recognisable too.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Black, Stripes, Different

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

  Katy B

  Night, Rocks, Mics

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• Security, we have a jumper! Security?

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Security

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• Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

  Brian Clough

  Leicester, Genius, Can Do

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

  Daley Thompson

  Years, Two, Long

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• I love like the 80s look - 80s and early 90s, like the high-waisted jeans and the crop tops, and the floral prints, and flowers and stuff like that. Big baggy jumpers... yeah, stuff like that.

  Perrie Edwards

  Flower, Jeans, Looks

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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