Jumpier Than Quotes

#1. The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

Lee Child

#2. I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.

Valentino Rossi

#3. If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.

Susan Hill

#4. In the morning when I wake up, my first thoughts are on God. I am always thankful for safe sleep and the grace to wake up to see the light of a new day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

C.S. Lewis

#6. It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

Honore De Balzac

#7. The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

Martin Seligman

#8. All I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.

John Green

#9. It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Roger Von Oech

#10. Every forest is a good library where you can find many books! Animals, trees, even rocks are the books of this mystic library! Read them to acquire their story! When you obtain the story of someone or something, you obtain their wisdom as well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.

Matthew Pearl

#12. Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Isaac Watts

#13. Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

Ed Belfour

#14. I kind of prefer to be sort of ahead of the pack checking things out, priming the canvas, if you will, for the younger guys that are going to come up and try to make their own statements about what they feel and what they have to contribute.

Christian Scott

#15. Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

Steve Jobs

#16. It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said.
Safer? He didn't realize.
I was already dead.

Ruta Sepetys

#17. Practicing zazen is like gradually (or maybe not so gradually) getting your sight back.

Brad Warner

#18. The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser