Up And Down Quotes - Page 7

• Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.

  Judi Dench

  Thinking, Clothes, Looks

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• You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Men, Games

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• I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
  I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
  Each time I find myself flat on my face
  I pick myself up and get back in the race

  Frank Sinatra

  Kings, Race, Pirate

  Song: That's Life, Album: That's Life

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• We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

  Michael Pollan

  Home, Phones, Cells

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially with small to medium sized companies. There's increasing evidence that a more flexible management style, where responsibility is distributed up and down the line, is what works best. And that kind of management style is one that will allow individual workers more flexibility - men and women.

  Betty Friedan

  Responsibility, Men, Command And Control

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

  Diana Ross

  Reflection, Lincoln Center, Curves

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.

  Valerie Jarrett

  People, Analysis, Care

  "Major Garrett Questions Presidential Adviser Valerie Jarrett". Interview with Major Garrett, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2010.

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• Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.

  John Maus

  Musical, Enthusiasm, Vacuous

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like this particular tune and that one I like less. I think it's much better to get involved with an artist instead of riding up and down the works you like and disregard the works you don't like.

  Steve Reich

  Thinking, Artist, Want

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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• We [Frisch and Lise Meitner] walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot (she said and proved that she could get along just as fast that way), and gradually the idea took shape that this was no chipping or cracking of the nucleus but rather a process to be explained by Bohr's idea that the nucleus was like a liquid drop; such a drop might elongate and divide itself.

  Otto Robert Frisch

  Ideas, Feet, Snow

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• It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.

  Daniel Craig

  Band, Down And, Matter

  Interview with Daniel Craig, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 28, 2013.

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• So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Reality

  "Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, p. 234, "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), 1969.

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• All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?

  Gertrude Bell

  Travel, Sea, People

  Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1894). “Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures”

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• money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Lying, Order, Wrecks

  Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The Dilemma of a Ghost ; Anowa: Two Plays”, Prentice Hall

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• If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

  Robert Harris

  Golf, Play, Long

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• We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Running, Team

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• I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Rocks, Careers

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sea, Names, Single Life

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• The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Heart, Men, Magic

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.7166, e-artnow

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• Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gratitude, Memories, Lying

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues”

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• I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Long, Laughing

  Yoko Ono (1970). “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• And in the evening, everywhere
  Along the roadside, up and down,
  I see the golden torches flare
  Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

  Frank Dempster Sherman

  Torches, Lamps, Golden

  Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”

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• I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking, Jumping, Swim

  "After 15 years, Jane Fonda returns". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. May 10, 2005.

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• I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  "Fictional character: An-Mei". "The Joy Luck Club", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Meditation isn't just something we do to make ourselves more peaceful and to take some of the stress out of our lives. We do it because it's the only direct experience we can have of knowing God. Because God is that which is indivisible. Everything else in the universe, in the physical world, is divisible. Up and down, good and bad, right and wrong, male and female, and so on. But that which is indivisible in our physical experience is called silence. And when you get into silence, you're coming to know the indivisibleness of your life - and that's conscious contact.

  Wayne Dyer

  Stress, Knowing, Silence

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