Swings Quotes - Page 15

• Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

  Trey Anastasio

  Sound

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• "Animal" is my favorite song because it's a reminder for me every night when I step on to stage that I am no longer a slave to fear. It's something I need to be reminded of constantly because fear is relentless. It will always continue to swing at me and this song is my armor and defense. It's my anthem in a sense to say fear will not hinder me anymore.

  Andrew Ripp

  Song, Animal, Night

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• I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Bigs, Courses

  Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September 1988.

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• I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Balls, Hitting

  Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September 1988.

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• I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were named for music. In the 1940s - after World War II - changes in taxation, ballrooms closing, people moving to the suburbs, and the onset of target marketing and the confusion of commerce with art caused some things to happen as a result that have taken us away from jazz and what jazz offers us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, War, Moving

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.

  Neil Simon

  Baseball, Fun, Writing

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• I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

  Davey Havok

  Tree, Faces

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• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

  Needs, Trends, Regulation

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• If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.

  Bart Millard

  Song, Inspiration, Albums

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• You don`t get mood swings from eating cornflakes

  O. J. Simpson

  Eating, Mood, Mood Swing

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• I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.

  J. J. Hardy

  Bats, Balls, Way

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• Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Missing, Champagne, Bigger

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!

  Scott Westerfeld

  Girl, Inspiration, Air

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• I feel something very small growing inside me as I look at her, and I realize in one absolutely clear moment that I don't like her at all. 'You know what?' I say. 'Forget it. I'll do the list by myself.' She stands up, swings her stupid hair about and tries to look offended. It's a trick that works with guys, but it makes no difference to the way I feel about her.

  Jenny Downham

  Stupid, Hair, Differences

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• But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Rain, Moon

  Madeleine L'Engle (1968). “Prelude”

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• My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

  Stevie Smith

  War, Heart, Care

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.195, New Directions Publishing

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• The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

  Huston Smith

  Political, World, Way

  Huston Smith (2009). “Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

  Gillian Flynn

  Reading, Party, Men

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.243, Broadway Books

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• I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

  Matt Damon

  Strong, Pain, Kids

  "In conversation: Matt Damon". Interview with Brian D. Johnson, www.macleans.ca. March 7, 2011.

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• Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.

  Alice Sebold

  Land, Rope, Violence

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• I was just born to swing, that's all.

  Lil Hardin Armstrong

  Women, Born

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• To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

  Amy Poehler

  Stupid, Fall, Caring

  "Amy Poehler Talks Feminism, Friendship, and Staying Away From Selfies". Interview with Rachael Combe, www.elle.com. January 30, 2014.

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• Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.

  Martin Amis

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Martin Amis (2010). “The Information”, p.9, Random House

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• It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Air, Sea, Swim

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