Back And Forth Quotes - Page 5

• I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.

  Warren Haynes

  Music, Guitar, Play

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• You do this, you do that You argue left, you argue right You come down, you go up This person says no, you say yes Back and forth You are happy You are really happy

  Ikkyu

  Happiness, Arguing, Really Happy

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• For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

  Lorrie Moore

  Love Relationship, Lasts, Sticks

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Apr 01, 2017

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• As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.

  Yves Klein

  Beautiful, Beach, Nice

  Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth endlessly between 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'It's Alright, Ma' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' and now my Bob Dylan roots are showing big time.

  Rodney Crowell

  Home, Men, Years

  "The Outsider / Rodney Crowell makes music outside the country -- and country's -- mainstream" by Derk Richardson, www.sfgate.com. September 29, 2005.

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• Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo. And like jazz, once we get going, we can play all night. Extrovert conversations are more like tennis matches, where thoughts are batted back and forth, and players need to be ready to respond. Introverts get winded pretty quickly.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Nice, Player, Night

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• Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.

  M. John Harrison

  Stories, World, Realizing

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• I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

  Sean Lennon

  Guitar, Two, Piano

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

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• Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.

  Waris Dirie

  Pain, Eye, Cutting

  "Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year 2013 - Sixth-form Category". www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2013.

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• Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

  John Powell

  Lonely, Loneliness, Pace

  John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr

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• In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, Swings, Two

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.19, Vintage

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• I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

  Kate Moss

  Jobs, New York, London

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

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• It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.

  Stockard Channing

  Moving, Media, Interesting

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

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• You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

  Carole L. Glickfeld

  Unhappy, Flow, Unhappiness

  Carole L. Glickfeld (2001). “Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, People, Entertainment

  "A Calendar of Wisdom". Book by Leo Tolstoy (1910). Translated by P. Sekirin, 1997.

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• I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick ... I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Oil, Feet, Light

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• The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full length. Then the fast boat won the second piece. And so it went for the next four pieces, back and forth. Conclusion: I hate seat racing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hate, Racing, Three

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• You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

  Michael Angarano

  Decision, Mind, Decision Making

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• When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid.

  Marijane Meaker

  Running, Jobs, Book

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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth. It's sort of freeing: I can say I'm abandoning this thing that I hate forever and I'm moving on to something that's good. I'll find that I'll go back to [the other project] in a day or a week and like it again. But that moment of wanting to trash something -- that Virginia Woolf moment when you have to be stopped from filling your pocket with stones -- comes pretty regularly for me. Switching is probably a good thing.

  Dan Chaon

  Hate, Moving, Virginia

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• They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic Using nursery terms, at least not poetic.

  Kool Keith

  Baby, Rap, Simple

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• My mother was very involved with me. And we had a dialogue constantly. And it was like an umbilical cord. As long as the words were flowing back and forth we were connected and feeding each other. And I probably grew up very afraid of losing that connection.

  Howard Stern

  Family, Mother, Long

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• When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day,
  Edging slowly back and forth toward death?
  Anyone who warms their heart with the glow
  Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all.
  The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

  Sophocles

  Heart, Men, Noble Man

  Sophocles, Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff (2007). “Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes”, p.23, Hackett Publishing

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• That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land boundary that we have with - Canada. We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America where - where do they go? It's Alaska.

  Sarah Palin

  Powerful, Eye, America

  "The question is: Can Palin give a coherent answer?". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. September 26, 2008.

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• A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.

  Alice Munro

  House, Stories, World

  "Selected Stories, 1968-1994". Book by Alice Munro, 1996.

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