Swings Quotes - Page 16

• I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Dark, Thinking

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• I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Buddhist, Mind, Scratches

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Dawn, Embrace

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.972, Delphi Classics

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• The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation.

  Naomi Novik

  Animal, Simple, Bars

  Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.390, Del Rey

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• He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hands, Rooms, Spinning

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.155, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Song, Pain, Tire

  Song: Life Is Just A Tire Swing, Album: A1A, 1974

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• Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

  David Sedaris

  Dog, Wish, North Carolina

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• Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I’ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dream, Cat, Pills

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• Alexander and I sat together on a backyard swing. "This is like a dream come true," Alexander said as we gently swung back and forth. "We can finally just focus on us now. Continue the traditional 'Boy meets girl, girl falls for boy, boy turns out to be a vampire' story.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Girl, Dream, Fall

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• I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

  Juice Newton

  Rocks, Stuff, Rock N Roll

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• And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

  Edward Albee

  Fall, Events, Alliances

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• 'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

  Artie Shaw

  Musician, Adjectives, Verbs

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• What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!

  Pete La Roca

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Art, Player

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Bebop, Broadway

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• The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Laughter, Garden, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.32, Atlântico Press

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• Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing.

  Rachel Vincent

  Golf, Littles, Scythes

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.39, Harlequin

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• I think it looked like I was a little more aggressive than I was, ... I swing at bad pitches anyway, but I was swinging at even more bad pitches and missing. It looked worse. But I was thinking about [the milestone], no doubt about it.

  Vladimir Guerrero

  Thinking, Missing, Doubt

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• I'm being a lot more consistent, trying to make every swing look the same. I'm doing what the situation calls for and trying not to do too much.

  Nick Swisher

  Trying, Looks, Too Much

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• Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.

  John Green

  Lonely, Children, Home

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.

  John Green

  Problem, Swing Sets, Ninety

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.74, Penguin

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• When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams. That is the ocean I want to dive in, merge with the bright fish, plankton and pirate ships. I walk up to people on the street that kind of look like you and ask them the questions I would ask you. Can we sit on a rooftop and watch stars dissolve into smoke rising from a chimney? Can I swing like Tarzan in the jungle of your breathing? I don’t wish I was in your arms, I just wish I was peddling a bicycle toward your arms.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Dream, Stars, Ocean

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• One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

  John Green

  Truth, Memories, Children

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• One thing I learned in '97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that it's much better to start during an economic downturn. Partnerships are easier; hiring is easier; and the competition starts later.

  Reid Hoffman

  Competition, Partnership, Economic

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• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  Emma Donoghue

  Drama, Kids, Light

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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