Swings Quotes - Page 24

• The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Fighting, Effort

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• A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

  Tony Lema

  Games, Sound Doctrine, Approach

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• I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

  Russel Honore

  Cat, Hitting, Reporters

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• Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

  Beth Henley

  Beautiful, Funny Things, People

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls.

  Stephen King

  Running, Book, Ideas

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing? These are things that are very subtle and that jazz musician appreciate in a particular way. I appreciate the way Tommy Flanagan swings, the way that Barry Harris swings, the great pulse that Hank Jones and Bill Evans have - end every one of them is different.

  Chuck Israels

  People, Appreciate, Pulse

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• A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen

  Bob Brookmeyer

  Song, Skills, Giving

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• Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Artist, Play

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 92), 1966.

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• I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Government, People, Political

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• Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.

  Seth Klarman

  Reality, Unexpected, Economy

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• Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.

  Eddie Izzard

  Distance, Winning, Play

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• For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Writing, Intimidating, Reason

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• Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!

  Nancy Byrd Turner

  Home, Doors, Latches

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• Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

  Van Morrison

  Ingredients, Jazz, Tradition

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

  Randal Kleiser

  Girlfriend, Kids, Ideas

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• Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.

  Nicholas Hope

  Heart, Dancing, Soul

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• You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch.

  Bobby Murcer

  Thinking, Focus, Waiting

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• So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.

  Tony Gubba

  Soccer, Football, Sides

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• Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains, and together they had this transporting, bittersweet quality.

  Justin Adams

  Together, Quality, Morocco

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I usually don't look at at-bats where I get out. I look at my hits. I look at good swings I put on balls. Because of that good swing or good at-bat, I can see what I need to continue to work on and recreate.

  Mark Teixeira

  Bats, Needs, Balls

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• I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.

  Barack Obama

  Summer, Daughter, Views

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We can go up or we can do down. I think generally the world is going on an upward swing. We're in a part of a cycle where people are discovering more. The communications are better. We're getting more into the subtle electricities that control the universe.

  George Harrison

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• In one way, we're on an upward swing, but at the same time there's still a lot of evil that goes on in the world. I think it's definitely heading in a better direction, but it seems to take so long for all the people with the power, who control the negative side of life and all the bad inventions they have like guns and bombs and hate. But there has to be a balance. We've got to all try harder to manifest more love in order to counteract all that.

  George Harrison

  Hate, Gun, Thinking

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• I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of, instead of hiding the structure and making it look organic and natural, we're going to put the structure on the outside. But most of the time, at least for me, all I could attend to [in Swing Time] was that act of structural self-consciousness.

  Zadie Smith

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made along the way. Life is a kind of swings and roundabouts situation; if you can't kick a football you turn to other pursuits.

  John McLeod

  Life, Football, Blessed

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