Back And Forth Quotes

• You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

  Alison McGhee

  Powerful, People, Expectations

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• Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Moving, People, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

  Hilary Swank

  Artist, Giving, Give And Take

  Source: collider.com

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• Did you think you could dump me, and I'd bounce back to her and miraculously be happy? I'm not a Ping-Pong ball. You can't just swat me back and forth and expect me to be content wherever I land. If Tod dumped you tomorrow, would you come back to me?

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Land, Balls

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, 2006.

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• Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Moving, Reality

  "Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author: A Conversation between Maurice Sendak and Virginia Haviland". Book by Virginia Haviland, 1970.

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• Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

  Mitch Albom

  Want, Life Is, Don't Take Anything For Granted

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.40, Broadway Books

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• Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Art, Simple

  Ray Bradbury (1955). “THE OCTOBER COUNTRY”

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• They say I'm young, but my purpose is the inspiration of a nation, innovation 'till I change the talk into a conversation. I'm like a doctor and my patients are anxiously waiting; healing all the hatin' that fakin' in the paper chasing. It's hard to live up to these expectations that I'm facing, and gain the admiration of an older generation. That's why I'm pacing back and forth, contemplatin' mediatatin', how to use what I've been taught is a positive force.

  Tyler James Williams

  Inspiration, Healing, Doctors

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• Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

  David Corbett

  Character, Events, Stories

  David Corbett (2013). “The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV”, p.41, Penguin

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• I think theres a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

  Regis Philbin

  Thinking, Ions, Flying

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• I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

  Jackie French

  People, Pages

  "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• I know I personally get a little rusty when I've jumped back and forth.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Littles, Knows

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  Nathan Lane

  Moving, Careers, Want

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• I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Hate, Book

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• I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.

  Helen Thomas

  Fun, Home, Comfort

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• I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Drama, Thinking, Challenges

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• Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Left Hanging, Goes On, Golden

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.212, Macmillan

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• I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

  Susan Orlean

  Friendly, Beginnings And Ends, Use

  "Dear Reader" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.

  Apolo Ohno

  Growing Up, Cities, Competition

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• Besides film, I'd like to be the young Regis. That would be great. Going back and forth from L.A. to New York. Doing stuff on food. Doing stuff on kids. Just talking about issues that are relevant. Doing things on the Olympic Games.

  Apolo Ohno

  New York, Kids, Talking

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• What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

  John Mayer

  Character, Home, Interesting

  "John Mayer talks life on the road, latest album". Interview with Jessi Savino, 2007.

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• My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor had he seen his neighbors. Now he looked at them, from face to face, until he realized I had been loved by people he didn't even recognize. His heart filled up, warm again as it had not been in what seemed so long to him- save small forgotten moments with Buckley, the accidents of love that happened with his son. ~pgs 209-210; Buckley, Lindsey and Jack on Susie

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Heart, Son

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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• going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere

  Gary Soto

  Gary Soto (2006). “Buried Onions”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

  David Bohm

  People, Feelings, Body

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.19, Routledge

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• But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain.

  Billy Collins

  Song, Rain, Home

  Billy Collins (1995). “The art of drowning”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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