Swings Quotes - Page 30

• The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Blood, Knives, Rivers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.168, Penguin

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• Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body, time is a pair of compasses in the hands of eternity, but inside it is a pendulum, fastened to the heart. the heart takes its measure from the lengthening swing of the pendulum surveying what time is left. in its own rhythm time spreads itself wildly here and there and is crippled elsewhere. its unequally distributed weight wounds my body - that is how the particularities of my life are manifest.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Heart, Tunnels, Hands

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• Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

  Homer

  Fighting, Skills, Two

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• Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.

  Warren Buffett

  Lemmings, Return, Behaviour

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• Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Space, Trying, Movement

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 23, 2017

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• I had an ASU student looking for it in my shop last week, and he defined the Bacchants for me as 'those drunk chicks who killed that one dude because he wouldn't have sex with them.' His professors must be so proud. I asked him if he knew what maenads were, and instead of correctly answering that it was just another name for Bacchants, he bizarrely thought I was referring to my own testicles - as in, "'Ere now, mate, don't swing that bat around me nads.'" The conversation deteriorated quickly after that.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sex, Names, Drunk

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Two”, p.50, Del Rey

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• It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him that people began to live toward the future. Humans do not die in a ditch like a dog-but at home in history, while the work toward the conquest of death is in full swing; they die sharing in this work.

  Boris Pasternak

  Death, Dog, Home

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• The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

  Carol Mann

  Heart, Golf, Size

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• Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source of jazz. Naturally, improvisation and swing are a part of jazz, improvisation being the key.

  Harold Land

  Keys, Self, Jazz Improvisation

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• Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Relationship, Oneness, Creating

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• Make sure you put quality into every practice swing.

  Jeanette Lee

  Practice, Quality

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• One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

  Nick Clooney

  Country, Night, America

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• I've been going to chiropractor for as long as I can remember. It's as important to my training as practicing my swing.

  Tiger Woods

  Long, Training, Important

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• When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better.There are good times coming.

  Bob Proctor

  Things Will Get Better, Good Times, Feels

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• It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

  Isaac Asimov

  Business, Degrees, Dynamics

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• Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

  Willie Nelson

  Bob, Jazz, Grew Up

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• A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Ideas, Guy

  The Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September, 1988.

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• Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.

  Mark McCumber

  Attitude, Golf, Long

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• Yeah, well, to hear you talk, most men should come with warning labels. (She lifted her hands up to frame her next statement.) Attention, please, Psycho Alert. Me, he-man, am prone to nasty mood swings, lengthy pouts, and possess the ability to tell a woman the truth about her weight without warning. (Selena)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Hands, Labels

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Emotion, Swirls

  Ernest Hemingway, James A. Michener (1986). “The dangerous summer”, Scribner Book Company

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• Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Jazz Improvisation, Individual

  "Wynton Marsalis: Jazz Messenger". Interview with Eugene Holley, Jr., www.ebony.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mean, People, Trying

  "Marsalis: Racism and greed put blues at the back of the bus". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. October 24, 2009.

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• I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

  John Green

  Morning, Thinking, Feet

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• She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary – and a sweet lover who would swing dance with her in the evenings and cook pasta and read poetry aloud.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sweet, Real, Flower

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• We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Running, Block, Past

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