Jumping Quotes - Page 15

• I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Airplane, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Mother, Running

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• Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.

  Curt Siodmak

  Beauty, Beautiful, Water

  "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.

  Anna Brackett

  Freedom, Giving Up, Struggle

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• I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.

  Sue Grafton

  Clever, Smart, Book

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Past, Different Experiences, Support

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• The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well.

  Frank Luntz

  Successful, People, Giving

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• A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

  Bill Russell

  Guy, Balls, Matter

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• We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.

  Jessica Ennis

  Running, Athlete, Long

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

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• The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.

  William Prynne

  Dance, Men, Dancing

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• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  Zachary Levi

  Motorcycle, Done, Littles

  "Zachary Levi Interview - CHUCK". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. August 8, 2008.

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• It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Book, Mean, Doors

  Silver RavenWolf (2012). “To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft”, p.18, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

  Drake

  Rap, White, Black

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. February, 2010.

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• I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Athlete

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

  Michel Gondry

  Jobs, Cutting, Creating

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• We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Player, Knowing

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• I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.

  Vanilla Ice

  Eight, Years, Broken

  "Catching Up with ...", www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Athlete, Ego, Stopping

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'Chronicle' Star Michael B. Jordan" by Breanne L. Heldman, www.mtv.com. February 01, 2012.

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• I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

  Kajol

  Safety, Personality, Comfort

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• I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  Use, Done, Painting

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• The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Christian, Stars, Children

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• Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Fall, Stripes, Example

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• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  Barry Hannah

  Fun, Writing, Confusion

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• Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sleep, Men, Hands

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “The Great Crash 1929”

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• As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Long, Littles, Arise

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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