Swings Quotes - Page 3

• Like they say, it ain't over 'til the fat guy swings

  Darren Daulton

  Sports, Guy, Fats

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• When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, Book, Kids

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.

  John Green

  Sex, Hipster, Cigarette

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

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• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  Hans Bender

  Heaven, Soul, Mind

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• Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.

  Clint Eastwood

  Golf, Practice, Brain

  "Letters From Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Judging, Balls

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• Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Ideas, Liberty, Different

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• Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Country, Men, Judging

  Harvard Law Review, June 1919

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• EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Years, Cynical, Challenges

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• Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.

  Sherry Turkle

  Teenager, School, Phones

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• Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.

  Jerry Pate

  Art, Golf, What Matters

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• If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

  Vince Cable

  Government, Minorities, May

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• Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

  Horace Silver

  Bebop, Broadway, Eras

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• Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,
  Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.
  My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.

  William Butler Yeats

  Black, Green, Woods

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.113

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• The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

  James A. Baldwin

  Stars, Flower, Moon

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

  Charles Portis

  Men, Medicine, Wife

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.51, A&C Black

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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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• A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Men, Ascending

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• The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Laughter, Garden, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.32, Atlântico Press

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• Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing.

  Rachel Vincent

  Golf, Littles, Scythes

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.39, Harlequin

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• Swing is my favorite kind of music.

  George Strait

  Kind, My Favorite

  David Cantwell, George Strait, Dave Marsh (1996). “George Strait”, Boulevard

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• The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

  Yann Martel

  Opposites, Boredom, Pairs

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.240, Vintage Canada

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• The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies.

  Christopher Moore

  Children, Hero, Angel

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Inspiration, Healing

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield

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