Jumping Quotes - Page 17

• I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Awards, Doors

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• I'm not jumping through the gym by any means. But I don't need to be able to do that in order to be a great player.

  Kobe Bryant

  Mean, Player, Order

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• If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.

  Luke Treadaway

  Thinking, Feet, Interesting

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• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Smell, Black, Firsts

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloë Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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• I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Connections, Ladders, Crowds

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• I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Sky, Scare, Diving

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• Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tree, Monkeys, Jungle

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• You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.

  Pelle Almqvist

  Love You, School, People

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

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• He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ocean, Fall, Eye

  Alice Hoffman (2008). “The Third Angel”, p.242, Random House

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• I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building or blowing my brains out with a gun might stop the suffering. but something about spending a night with a knife in my hand did it. The next morning I called my friend Susan as the sun came up, begged her to help me. I don't think a woman in the whole history of my family had ever done that before, had ever sat in the middle of the road like that and said, in the middle of her life, "I cannot walk another step further--somebody has to help me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Morning, Gun, Night

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.101, Penguin

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• Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?" Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. "He - uh - I'm tutoring him." "She is," Han said solemnly. "She's very good. I'm learning a lot." Pearlie snickered. "What's she teaching you?" "Well," Han said, "we're jumping around a lot.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Teaching, Thinking, Wild Side

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• Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Thinking, Rushing

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• As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules, just energy - so much energy, you could harness it; I bet you could power Portland for a decade. It is more than a wave. It's a tide, an ocean of bodies.

  Lauren Oliver

  Ocean, Sea, Snakes

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

  Jim Butcher

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.256, Penguin

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• When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.

  Jay-Z

  Stress, School, Ideas

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.206, Random House Group

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• For me, chemistry is trust. If you have trust you can risk together. It's like a partnership and it means you can have fun together while jumping off a mountain. I have not always been able to get good trust with an acting partner. One of the best was Juliet Landau; I always felt safe with her. Chemistry has nothing to do with physical attraction - that often gets in the way.

  James Marsters

  Fun, Mean, Risk

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• You didn’t really hold back on Braga so Pickering could kill him, did you?” Royce asked after the two were left alone in the hallway. “Of course not. I held off because it’s death for a commoner to kill a noble.” “That’s what I thought.” Royce sounded relieved. “For a minute, I wondered if you’d gone from jumping on the good-deed wagon to leading the whole wagon train.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Two, Gone, Noble

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.266, Ridan Publishing

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• When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Blue, Ideas

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says.

  Jay Asher

  War, Fire, Guy

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Jumping up and down is definitely sexy," Vayl assured me. "Would you like to do it two or three times right now before we get down to business?" Sterling and Cole groaned at the same time "Ewww!

  Jennifer Rardin

  Sexy, Two, Three

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• Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Heart, Thinking, Dancing

  Pam Muñoz Ryan (2012). “Esperanza Rising”, p.157, Scholastic Inc.

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• ...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Sports, Wrestling, London

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Rivers of London”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

  Girl Talk

  Pieces, Lines, Incorporating

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.

  Steve McQueen

  Cat, Effort, Movement

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.

  Earl Wilson

  Feet, Effort, Ovation

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