Swings Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan.

  Eric Maisel

  Mistake, Might, Execution

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• Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.

  Craig McDonald

  Texas, Hands, Judging

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• If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Thinking, Hands

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• If Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least, she would have a hitch in her swing.

  Carly Fiorina

  Faces, Debate, Clinton

  "Meet the women worried about a woman in the White House" By MJ Lee, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2015.

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• When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower.

  Phillip Thomas

  Eight, Together, Rowing

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• As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

  Mose Allison

  Personality, Essentials, Jazz Improvisation

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• There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In these divine moments key men and women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing.

  Lou Engle

  Spring, Men, Keys

  James W. Goll, Lou Engle (2011). “The Call of the Elijah Revolution”, p.101, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

  Sammy Sosa

  Nice, Swinging For The Fences, Differences

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• The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Optimism, Forever

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.

  Wynton Marsalis

  New Orleans, Play, Next

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• Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

  Bill Simmons

  Writing, Golf, Playing Golf

  "Interview with Bill Simmons, Author of The Book of Basketball". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.

  Daisy Whitney

  Mom, Answers, Faults

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• My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

  Rory McIlroy

  Dad, Two, Scratches

  "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

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• I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Golf, Hot, Film

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Movie, Believe, Golf

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

  Geddy Lee

  Attitude, Responsibility, Two

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• In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so awful, but it's here. The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it's never going to swing back.

  Dar Williams

  Taken, People, Democracy

  Source: progressive.org

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• I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Moving, Doors

  "Fragile Things". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2006.

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• Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Acceptance, One Direction, Choices

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.

  Deb Caletti

  Fate, Love Is, Clouds

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• I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Rip, Speech, Want

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• Juke glanced into her cup before tipping it down to her mouth. "Screw you!" "Now come on, sugar, you know I don't swing that way." "Whatever!

  Ilona Andrews

  Tipping, Mouths, Sugar

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.62, Penguin

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• Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Sunrise, Looks

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• God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nice, Reading, Boys

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