Jumping Quotes

• Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.

  

  Fabiano Anthony Forte
  • Heart
  • Animal
  • Jumping

• He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.

  

  T. H. White
  • Words
  • Sea
  • Leaving

• It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Trouble
  • Conclusion
  • Jumping

• When I was in middle school, I tried to impress this girl by jumping over this ledge on a scooter. I caught the edge of the ledge and totally fell right in front of her. I never talked to her again. So [my advice is], take it easy if you have a school crush!

  

  Kevin Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Girl
  • Jumping
  • Middle School

• You're jumping over the bench, jumping back onto the ice and you're working as a unit. Defenders can move up the ice and score goals as well as the forwards. It's a real fast, physical game. It's the fastest game on earth so it's pretty enjoyable to watch.

  

  Gerad Adams
  • Goals
  • Physical
  • Enjoyable

• I found myself not jumping in (to assist) as often if someone did not have that (corrections) background.

  

  Ron Blair Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Background
  • Correction
  • Assist

• I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Long
  • Done
  • Air

• Eureka! Eureka! Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.

  

  Archimedes
  • Problem
  • Discovery
  • Jumping

• The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Disease
  • Crooked
  • Cravings

• One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.

  

  J. E. H. MacDonald
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Nature

• The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Children
  • Universe
  • Adventurous

• I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Running
  • Jumping
  • Stunts

• When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Work
  • Jump
  • Option

• I was right." She dropped the sword and grabbed Helen in a hug. Then she started jumping up and down, making Helen jump with her. "You're not dead! This is... You have no idea how happy I am I didn't just kill you!" she squealed.

  

  Josephine Angelini
  • Dead
  • Kill
  • Jumping

• As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Ideas
  • Film
  • Becoming

• Quit jumping over our feelings!

  

  Jeremy Davis Paramore
  • Feelings
  • Jumping

• Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Jumping

• I am a fairly physical guy I stay in shape and do a lot of karate and that kind of stuff. I prefer to do my own stunts if it's possible. I'm not jumping off burning buildings or something, but rolling around and getting knocked down and stuff like that I get a kick out of.

  

  Nick Damici
  • Jumping
  • Rolling
  • Stunts

• You've seen how actors make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

  

  Rider Strong
  • War
  • Movie
  • Green

• If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Favorite
  • Motorcycle
  • Riding

• The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.

  

  William Prynne
  • Together
  • Dance
  • Enough

• It takes bravery to care for someone — no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.

  

  Deb Olin Unferth
  • Matter
  • Enormous
  • Bravery

• We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'

  

  Errol White
  • Progress
  • Evolution
  • Biology

• Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Happy
  • Night
  • Jumping

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