Jump Quotes

• In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Red

• With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Jump
  • Bridge

• Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.

  

  Valerie Sayers
  • Funny
  • Imagination
  • Tides

• It’s not a good idea to jump into the sewer to catch a rat.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Jump
  • Good Idea
  • Rat

• High jump is such a mental thing. It's you against the bar. It's something that a lot of people struggle with, and people experience slumps and plateaus because of it.

  

  Derek Drouin
  • People
  • Experience
  • High

• When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Live
  • Jump

• I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • Remember
  • I Remember

• I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Strong
  • Jump
  • Survival

• What’s shocking is to see six-year-old children jump roping in the street at 2:00 a.m.-that’s shocking-a block away from drug dealers. Just to see that the gap in the circle is education, in my mind, primarily for young women, because it’s the young women that are raising the kids and that’s where the circle, I think, perpetuates itself.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Children

• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Life
  • Time
  • Jump

• Nothing good happens when you jump in the air.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Air
  • Happens
  • Jump

• To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

  

  Geoffrey Boycott
  • Car
  • Jump

• So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.

  

  George Gamow
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Jump

• I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Girl
  • Jump
  • Italian

• The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'

  

  Bruno Heller
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Guy

• It's easy for me to see how a business proposition is going to play out, or who our next-generation competitors are, from taking this data point from this customer and another data point from another customer... and jump to Z.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Business
  • Jump

• The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Water

• Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Tennis
  • Jump

• I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Jump

• There was a point in my teenage years, when we were starting to play bigger shows and females were running after tour buses and all that, and my mom - and I remember this like it was yesterday - said: 'Look, I want you to know that I couldn't be prouder of you. You are extraordinary. You move people. But it doesn't make you better than them. You still put your pants on the same way as them, one leg at a time every morning.' I thought about learning to jump right into them, just to mess with her. But what she said stuck with me, and I think it's true.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• No matter how many times you've seen the movies and the TV shows that have a protagonist leaping in the path of a bullet, physics forbids such sacrifice. Because of a bullet's radical speed, you can't jump in front of it, but you could get in its way. It's not as dramatic, but it does save lives.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Path
  • Sacrifice
  • Jump

• It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Long
  • Guy
  • Jump

• As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Jump

• When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

  

  Brady Anderson
  • Jump

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