Swings Quotes - Page 20

• Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hands, Gestures, Way

  "“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 10, 2013.

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• When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

  Jesse Jackson

  Opportunity, Doors, Racism

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• I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Golf, Hot, Film

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Movie, Believe, Golf

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

  Geddy Lee

  Attitude, Responsibility, Two

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• Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.

  Philippa Perry

  Letting Go, Risk, Rope

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It really is great. Especially having people who we make fun every week come on and poke fun at themselves is really cool, I love that. No reality star has been mad at me yet for making fun of them. I'm sure that one day soon though, someone is going to take a swing at me.

  Joel McHale

  Stars, Fun, Reality

  "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

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• Colorado is a swing state, like Nevada, like North Carolina, like Florida. It all depends. [Donald] Trump has offended Mexicans and Muslims and millennials and some women. Will those offended people be energized to show up in the way that Trump supporters are energized to show up? It will be an energy.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Florida, People, Colorado

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Wind, The End Of The Day

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music.

  Ella Henderson

  Holiday, Play, Soul

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• I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Character, Play

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• But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

  Buddy Rich

  Band, Drummer

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• It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.

  Thomas Dolby

  Abuse, Ability

  Song: The Ability To Swing, Album: Aliens Ate My Buick

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• Disregarding the big swing and trying to jump in and out was fatal to me. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations. In a bull market your game is to buy and hold until you believe that the bull market is near its end. To do this you must study general conditions and not tips or special factors affecting individual stocks.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Believe, Games, Special

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• More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild

  Diane di Prima

  Together, Would Be, Love Poems

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• Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mean, Mad, Waiting

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• Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

  H. G. Wells

  Cat, Essentials, Rooms

  H. G. Wells (2012). “Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul”, p.219, The Floating Press

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• Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Hurt, Real, Fall

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.83, Macmillan

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• The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies.

  Christopher Moore

  Children, Hero, Angel

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Inspiration, Healing

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Freedom, Noses, Fists

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• On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

  Charles Portis

  Men, Medicine, Wife

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.51, A&C Black

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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. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Buddhist, Thinking, Ideas

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• I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Moving, Doors

  "Fragile Things". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2006.

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• Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Acceptance, One Direction, Choices

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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