Swings Quotes - Page 17

• If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sex, Romance, Records

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• Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

  Jorge Posada

  Missing, Straight Up, Curveballs

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• You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming.' Boq held his breath. But you're little!' she concluded. 'You're a Munchkin, for god's sake!' He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little.

  Gregory Maguire

  Sweet, Giving Up, Thinking

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.115, Harper Collins

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• We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

  Kevin Costner

  Children, Rocks, Leaving

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• What's the longest walk in golf? It's from the practice tee to the first tee. I don't care if it's 10 yards. It's the longest walk in golf. Winners take their swing with them. Losers don't.

  Moe Norman

  Golf, Practice, Yards

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• The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'

  Kathryn Stripling Byer

  Girl, Moving, Twilight

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• The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Bags, Clubs

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• You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

  Joni Mitchell

  Mean, Rocks, Sight

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• New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Cat, Games, Networking

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• The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, People, Bipolar

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• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Sound

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• When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

  Katy Perry

  Dancing, Style, Firsts

  Interview, maniacmagazine.com. November 17, 2010.

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• My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Lunch, Looks

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• Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Feelings, Balance, Way

  "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 1, 2011.

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• When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

  Paul Feig

  School, Late, Disco

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• I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.

  Stone Gossard

  Thinking, Kind, Natural

  "Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard walks through his band's big hits and deep cuts". Interview with Josh Modell, music.avclub.com. October 15, 2013.

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• The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Appreciation, Loss, Your Side

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• After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

  George Harrison

  Tin, Pieces, Selling

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• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Hair, Opposites

  Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

  Tiger Woods

  Player, Balls, Looks

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• The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

  Louis Aragon

  Marine, Men, Darkness

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• The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Life, Cutting, Youth Of Today

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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  The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

  Clara Barton

  Nursing, Doors, Nurse

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• Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.

  Dave Winfield

  Baseball, Trying, Educated

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

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• I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing.

  Charles Mingus

  Boys, Hands, Church

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