Jump Quotes

• We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Jump

• I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.

  

  Kimiko Glenn
  • Jump

• America's tax code is beyond repair. Tinkering with it won't work. The only hope is a bold tax-reform plan that will liberate our nation from the slow-growth status quo and jump-start a new era of American prosperity and growth.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Work
  • American
  • America

• Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.

  

  Elijah Kelley
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Grandparents

• I'm not like some guys who, if the Ravens lose, are ready to jump off the top of M&M Stadium. There are other things in life besides pro football.

  

  Art Donovan
  • Life
  • Football
  • Jump

• 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

• I've never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I'm kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I'm sort of waiting for something to happen that I'm not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Waiting
  • Jump

• 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

• Maybe having to pretend to be in love with someone and then jump into bed with them breaks the ice very quickly; friendship follows fast.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Friendship
  • Jump

• When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

  

  J. Allen Hynek
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Science

• I've lived and worked in Brussels and New York at the U.N. and worked all over the world. I would jump on a plane and be in Kabul one week and then Dafur the next.

  

  Jo Cox
  • World
  • Jump

• 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

• I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Girl
  • Mirror
  • Jump

• If you can jump, you can jump.

  

  Brooke Sweat
  • Jump

• Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player who is getting a bit better each year.

  

  David Hearn
  • Player
  • Jump

• When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

  

  Eric Bana
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Bike

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

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Jump

• As I grew into my body, high jump chose me.

  

  Derek Drouin
  • High
  • Jump

• 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

• Life is awesome as a college athlete, and then it's a total cliff to jump off.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • Life
  • College
  • Athlete

• In the NBA, there's always a guy who is only around because he can jump. He doesn't have a clue about the fundamentals. I learn more from the WNBA. They know how to dribble, how to pivot, how to use the shot fake.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Guy
  • Jump
  • Fake

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

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Life
  • Time
  • Jump

• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Spring
  • Jump
  • Hurrah

• 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

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