Up And Down Quotes

• Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks

  Anthony Calvillo

  Inspiration, Clicks, Overnight Success

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• My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

  Neil Young

  Careers, Patterns, Sun

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• The Divine rejoices in your being happy. God, or the Creation, is so happy when you are happy. When you dance, sing, and jump up and down happily, that is true prayer, that is true meditation. Meditation is a fountain of joy, an ecstasy; and Divine enjoys that more. Divine is not fond of your suffering.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Prayer, Meditation, Joy

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• It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or whatnot, and jumping up and down on a pogo stick while playing a fancy lead guitar. And they get mad when I sing a heartfelt emotional song and if there's an album full of them.

  Butch Walker

  Song, Emotional, Jumping

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

  David McCord

  Moving, Islands, Rocks

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• Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

  Gordon Strachan

  Football, Nice, Scotland

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• Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

  Jack Wagner

  Son, Air, Three

  "Final exam with Jack Wagner". Interview with Brian Murphy, www.golfdigest.com. November 1, 2007.

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• I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Hero, Knights, Years

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.356, Macmillan

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• Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

  Ray LaHood

  Swings, Bridges, Rivers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Years, Weight, Bugs

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• We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet.

  Errol White

  Jumping, Matter, Prophet

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• The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

  Heinrich Heine

  Swans, Water, Singing

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Epic, World, Artistic

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• During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on “unearned income” have bounced up and down with regularity, and I’ve never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.

  Steven Rattner

  Wall, Hard Work, Years

  "More Chips For Tax Reform" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. November 24, 2012.

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• My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Mean, Eyebrows, Mind

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• You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

  Monica Ali

  Running, Assuming, Life Is

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• Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

  Joan Baez

  Tattoo, Reality, Parent

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• Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.

  Randy Newman

  Girl, Blonde, Watches

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• I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

  Calvin Harris

  Gone, Breakfast, Buffets

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• I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Swings, Years, Long

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• Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

  Jerry Reed

  Running, Car, Larks

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• My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

  Marian McPartland

  Thinking, Hands, Piano

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• The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

  Ray Davies

  Tree, Insanity, Coconuts

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• Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.

  Ana Ortiz

  New York, Exercise, Cities

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• Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

  George Papandreou

  Roller Coaster, Coasters, Greece

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