Quotes About Hopping

#1. They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.

Marian Keyes

#2. I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower."
He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#3. Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. We found it!" Charlotte yelled, as they ran back through the house. "We found it, we found it!"
Eddie, Mr. Mallery, and Colonel Andrews came from separate directions, converging in the front hall. Miss Charming was hopping up and down, her bosom nearly rising to slap her own forehead.

Shannon Hale

#5. Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#6. When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.

William T. Vollmann

#7. Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes
without the pesky morality.

Daniel H. Wilson

#8. When I get some down time on the weekends, I love gallery hopping with friends, in particular checking out Gagosian Galleries - between the three in N.Y.C., there's always a great show on or something cool to see.

Jessica Hart

#9. Modern dances always seem to me so vulgar. So much hopping about; like a scene from a mental ward!

Sarah Waters

#10. When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

Maggie Q

#11. I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.

Alexander McQueen

#12. The top 15 contenders for the Republican nomination own at least 40 guns among them. If we elect a Republican president no one is hopping over the White House fence ever again.

Conan O'Brien

#13. Hopping over the side of the couch I landed on top of him. "My bones are so heavy! I don't think I can move." I groaned.
"Ack!" he grunted. "I can't breathe."
"Oh noes! However will I get up so that my bubby can breathe?

Nicole Hamlett

#14. I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly.
That's not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said, hopping out.

Rudy Rucker

#15. You try almost dying, being chased, then
hopping in a car with a complete (horny)
stranger.

Gena Showalter

#16. If any man has a ghost
Bourne has a ghost
a tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak
hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone streets still left in downtown New York,
crying out in a shrill soundless giggle:
War is the health of the State.

John Dos Passos

#17. My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

F. Paul Wilson

#18. Standing is stupid,
Crawling's a curse,
Skipping is silly,
Walking is worse.
Hopping is hopeless,
Jumping's a chore,
Sitting is senseless,
Leaning's a bore.
Running's ridiculous,
Jogging's insane-
Guess I'll go upstairs and
Lie down again.

Shel Silverstein

#19. ...You're my princess," I tell her, hopping up onto the bed, scooping her up and laying back. Her knees come to rest on either side of my head and I grin. "And your throne is my face.

Kerry Heavens

#20. If he was displeased, he might scream and get hopping mad and use expletives, but he wouldn't do it in a way that would totally destroy the person he was talking to. It was just his way to get the person to do a better job.

Walter Isaacson

#21. Killian kissed the tip of her nose and released her hands before hopping down to the tracks ...
"Are you coming?" Killian's teasing voice slipped into her mind and made her smile.
"Not yet," Sadie sang. She hopped onto the tracks and winked at Killian. "But you can make it up to me later.

Sara Humphreys

#22. you don't understand," she pleaded, hopping down from the counter.

Allison Jewell

#23. I feel a smile sweep across my face, remembering all the light showers, the dark showers, picking up rocks and finding spinning planets, days with thousands of pockets, grabbing moments like apples, hopping fences into forever.

Jandy Nelson

#24. It was starting to get impatient. A hedgehog hopping irritably on its hind legs is a tragic sight.

T. Kingfisher

#25. He could not, in good conscience, promote any association with Daisy Green and her band of ladies. He could more easily recommend gang membership or fence-hopping into the polar bear enclosure at the Regents Park zoo.

Helen Simonson

#26. Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.

Tom Watson

#27. He is flitting and hopping about in the lobby like a sparrow whose nest had just been blown down in a windstorm.

Neal Stephenson

#28. I have to confess I'm addicted to Sky Sports News. Just the music can pull me in. And then whether it's badminton in the Czech Republic, snail pushing or mole hopping, I'm hooked.

Andrew Buchan

#29. To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys.

Roy Campanella

#30. Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling.

Dane Cook

#31. One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

John Gunther

#32. Just look at your mind for a few minutes. You will see that it is like a flea, constantly hopping to and fro. You will see that thoughts arise without any reason, without any connection. Swept along by the chaos of every moment, we are the victims of the fickleness of our mind.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#33. Rushing toward her are all the letters of the alphabet. Each one moves in its own way, X cartwheeling over and over, C hopping forward, M and N marching stiff-legged and resolute.

Myla Goldberg

#34. (Lest you have forgotten, it is quite excruciating to hammer the back of your thumb. It inevitably prompts a hopping up and down and the taking of the Lord's name in vain.) But

Amor Towles

#35. I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

Chris Stapleton

#36. I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.

Emo Philips

#37. How did I find myself here? Me - the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, hopping from one train to another, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?

Fadia Faqir

#38. Jolene came bounding into my room at sunset, hopping up and down on the bed, bouncing me off onto the floor. I sat up and glared at her. "Andrea gave you espresso, didn't she?" "Nope!" she crowed. "But she showed me how to work the machine!" "Augh!

Molly Harper

#39. I like not to be good at anything, so I keep hopping around.

Jon Stewart

#40. Ash held one finger up. "OK. Now listen-"
Mary-Lynnette kicked him in the shins. She knew it was inapporopriate, she knew it was uncalled-for, but she couldn't stop herself. She just had to.
"Oh, for God's sake," Ash said, hopping backward. "Are you crazy?

L.J.Smith

#41. Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.

Ann Coulter

#42. I can't imagine that I'm supposed to get over it , like hopping a low stone wall; if Thursday was a barrier of some kind, it was made of razor wire, which I did not bound over but thrash through, leaving me in flayed pieces and on the other side of something only in a temporal sense.

Lionel Shriver

#43. She had only the slimmest notion of what he meant, but his voice made her so horny she could barely keep from squirming, crossing her legs, or hopping about, like a little girl who had to go to the bathroom. On

Tom Robbins

#44. If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.

Dan Ariely

#45. Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'
He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'
It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer.

Holly Black

#46. I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.

Frans De Waal

#47. Joe spent quite some time hopping up and down next to me, saying "Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!" when what he meant to say was, "I see you have a chocolate croissant on your desk. Any chance of handing it over?

Keris Stainton

#48. Instead of hopping around like a wild in'jun on fire, try counting from 10 backwards while hopping on one foot.

R. Alan Woods

#49. I'm surrounded by morons, I muttered, making certain both the accused in question could hear me, before I began hopping away from them. I was positive I looked like a psychotic Easter bunny terrorizing the woods.

Nicole Williams

#50. I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

Michelle Dockery

#51. I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

P. J. O'Rourke

#52. What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Terry Pratchett

#53. [To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.

Jackie Kennedy

#54. I left home when I turned 17 and ran away to New York. I did a lot of moving. I was based in New York and country-hopping, so I was always 'the new girl'.

Sarah Roemer

#55. Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?

Suzanne Collins

#56. And unlike the rest of you, he hasn't yet time to ruin his career or his mind."
"Then he won't do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic."
"Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!"
"I withdraw my objection.

Aaron Allston

#57. If you were called to gallop like the horse, never end up hopping like the frog. Rise up for greatness.

Israelmore Ayivor

#58. Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

Ted Nugent

#59. Everybody knew that he spent an hour each morning hopping about and kicking things like a maddened rabbit

Meredith Duran

#60. He thought of hopping off in a comic sort of way till he was out of sight of her, and then never going near the spot any more.

J.M. Barrie

#61. While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it.

Alexandra Adornetto

#62. Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

Marcel Proust

#63. - in case Wayne failed." "Which never happens." Wayne grinned and took a bite of his apple, hopping off his steps to walk beside Waxillium. "Except that one time. And that other one time. But those don't matter, onnacount of my getting hit to the head enough times that I can't remember them.

Brandon Sanderson

#64. I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow ...
Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light
... and are you going to stay the night?

Cat Stevens

#65. But to talk of the world that is hidden in every woman is a journey of pain, for the words are not in use to tell of it, and to use the words that are is only a hopping on uneven crutches.

Richard Llewellyn

#66. Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake.

Ice-T

#67. The other [video game] franchises let you experience the adrenaline and horror of war, or deep fantasy worlds, or pro sports. A Mario game lets you pretend to be a middle-aged chubster hopping onto a turtle shell.

Jeff Ryan

#68. Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

Barack Obama

#69. The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."

Jack Kerouac

#70. While some women had wing girls for club hopping, Sal had something far more important - a best friend who could run patient interference better than most linebackers.

Carolyn McCray

#71. The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet.
They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.

Philip K. Dick

#72. Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I don't want to grow up."

Matt Skiba

#73. The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

Dani Shapiro