Jumping Quotes - Page 13

• My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

  Edvard Munch

  Fall, Trying, Stones

  Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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• The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.

  Simon Schama

  Stars, War, School

  "This much I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2005.

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• I love to create and I love to be challenged and I love to do things that are scary, so I think I would probably think about jumping off a bridge if somebody told me that's going to make that shot real great. I'd be like, "Okay, here we go, let's do it." Like, yeah.

  Emmy Rossum

  Real, Thinking, Bridges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

  Romola Garai

  Horse, Children, Garden

  "Romola Garai's heroes of TV news" by Romola Garai, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2011.

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• What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

  Bill Vaughan

  Suicide, Nuts, Bridges

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• You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

  Ann Patchett

  Rivers, Jumping In, Persons

  Ann Patchett (2012). “State of Wonder”, p.306, A&C Black

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• Many centuries ago, Oriental thinkers recognized that the mind is a constant mover and that it is next to impossible to stop it altogether. But one can learn to manage it by skillful use of the handle of control. They compared the mind to a jumping monkey. To intensify the image, they added that the monkey was maddened; then someone got him drunk; and finally, a scorpion bit him.

  Ervin Seale

  Drunk, Mind, Scorpions

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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• There's always that jumping off place when you're doing a sex scene when you can tell the crew's like, 'OK, it's comin'. At this point, it's actually not a big deal.

  Taylor Schilling

  Sex, Scene, Bigs

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• You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

  Avan Jogia

  Opportunity, Boards, Path

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really like doing action. It's one of those things where I negotiate the world physically, I think, more than mentally. I enjoy running and jumping.

  Channing Tatum

  Running, Thinking, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't feel lonely. No no no. I feel like I'm jumping in a well that has no bottom, and at some point I know I'll hit bottom. I never put a time limit on it. I'm oblivious to anything except that which I'm doing.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Lonely, Limits, Wells

  Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 1, 2010.

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• whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Taken, California, San Francisco

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• I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.

  Richard Pryor

  Bullshit, Causes, Crosses

  "Song: "Religion"". Comedy album "Craps (After Hours)", 1971.

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• I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

  Robin Wasserman

  Writing, Way, Cliffs

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• I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.

  Jim Harrison

  Holes, Bloody, Verge

  Jim Harrison (2013). “Dalva”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.

  Mark Grace

  Team, Slumps, Woods

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• I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing “Jailhouse Rock,” the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.

  Garth Brooks

  Girl, Dad, Nuts

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• Doing things out of the ordinary - out of the box - like jumping out of airplanes and landing in cities that you've never been to before, then finding your way through. That's the type of trip that excites me.

  Dhani Jones

  Airplane, Cities, Ordinary

  "Best Fantasy Football Tips From Dhani Jones". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. September 4, 2014.

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• When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

  Gary Hoey

  Hard Work, Player, Guitar

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• Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

  Harold Acton

  Exercise, People, Conclusion

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• People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  People, Happens

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?

  Nancy Bird Walton

  Mother, Book, Climbing

  Interview with George Negus on "George Negus Tonight", March 8, 2004.

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• We all experience doubts and fears as we approach new challenges. The fear diminishes with the confidence that comes from experience and faith. Sometimes you just have to go for it and see what happens. Jumping into the battle does not guarantee victory, but being afraid to try guarantees defeat

  Brian Goodell

  Challenges, Doubt, Victory

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• The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.

  Conan O'Brien

  Past, White, Years

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• The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

  Robert Burns

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Robert Burns (1868). “Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns”, p.98

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