Jump Quotes

• Well first of all, I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark. I read it in every article and I think that when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, 'Happy Days' was on the air for another five years.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Happy
  • Air
  • Article

• The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

  

  Kit Williams
  • Control
  • Jump

• If you don't do the suspense correctly, then your jump scares are not going to work.

  

  James Wan
  • Work
  • Jump

• People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

  

  Philip Guedalla
  • People
  • Jump

• If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Career
  • Jump

• Kafka taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal, and the distance between them. ... He's out there by himself. You get the jump in the feet when you read certain passages by him. That's the mark of truly great writing. It gives you the jump in the feet.

  

  Dermot Healy
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Distance

• I'm constantly saying that I have bad hair days when I'm in New York. It's so hard. I've been lucky enough to jump immediately into a car, head straight to the location, and stay in the air-conditioning.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Bad
  • Hair
  • Car

• Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.

  

  Lydia Leonard
  • People
  • Mind
  • She

• I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Country
  • Police

• When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Trust
  • Dark
  • Jump

• I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Water

• It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

  

  Eric Bristow
  • Nice
  • Wish
  • Jump

• All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Up
  • Jump

• You try to figure out the best way to throw the shot put, or the perfect way to long jump, and you don't ever get it. You just chip away, chip away, chip away as time goes on.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Perfect

• If you're going to do it, do it very cautiously. If you're going to ride a bike, ride it the right way. Don't speed. Do it for enjoyment. If you're going to bungee jump, have two cords in case one snaps. I don't ride anything. I just talk trash. That's it.

  

  Chad Johnson
  • Jump
  • Bike

• If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.

  

  John Niven
  • People
  • Long
  • Water

• If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.

  

  Jacques Plante
  • Stupid
  • Brave
  • Parachute

• My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Death
  • Night

• I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Job
  • Energy
  • Passion

• I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.

  

  Brea Grant
  • Jump

• Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

  

  Claire Cook
  • Life
  • Work
  • Person

• I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Jump

• If you look at the end of a roll of toilet paper, like the brown paper tube, I basically worked in a factory that made humongous ones like that - for concrete or anything you wanted to put in there. I was the guy who chopped those up into smaller pieces, put them in a box, throw it in a pallet, wrap it up, jump in a forklift and put it on a truck.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Truck

• Nothing good happens when you jump in the air.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Air
  • Happens
  • Jump

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