Top 100 Quotes About Jumps
#1. He looks up, sees me in the window, and jumps a little. Good. Let him think I'm a weird Mexican place mat ghost.
Anna Breslaw
#2. Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's a whole different ballgame that you're constantly working on - bent legs, loose ankles - which you cannot afford to do when you're doing jumps or anything else.
Nigel Lythgoe
#3. The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.
Roy Wilkins
#4. Non-Masons stay pretty much in the dark about What Goes On, though now and then something jumps out, exposes itself, jumps giggling back again, leaving you with few details but a lot of Awful Suspicions. Some
Thomas Pynchon
#5. Your heart beat is my favorite thing to listen to. When you look at me and your heart rate jumps.
Shelly Crane
#6. Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#7. The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.
Paul Hirsch
#8. When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.
Bill Veeck
#9. When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
D.H. Lawrence
#10. The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it's got a mutation.
Richard Preston
#11. She waited the eternal instant that women wait when a horror jumps out at them. It is an instant that men do not use for waiting, an instant that opens a door to life or death. Women look through the opening because something might be alive in there.
Kathleen Winter
#12. We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.
Christian Bale
#13. I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.
Tom Araya
#15. My reverie jumps me into the middle of the period and I conjure the giant, unforgettable figure of Douglas Adams, sadly absent from the feast.
Richard Dawkins
#16. When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?
Sayo Masuda
#17. With Bolshoi technique, the movements are quite large, the jumps are big, and I'm a tall dancer, so I've learned to use my height more, to elongate my moves, jumps and positions. I'm physically using my body more to my advantage.
David Hallberg
#18. Believing the world is calm because we have never seen it otherwise is like taking the attitude of a man who jumps off the top of a tall building and figures that, since 29 of the 30 floors have passed without incident, he is going to be okay.
Stephen Webb
#19. I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden
#20. There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.
David Lloyd George
#22. I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.
Dov Seidman
#23. He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.
It's time to jump.
Lauren Oliver
#24. A muscle in the Commander's jaw jumps, and he levels his fierce glare on Willow. "You have a big mouth."
"I need a big mouth to keep up with my big brain.
C.J. Redwine
#25. I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise
Fannie Flagg
#26. Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn't true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.
Michael Crichton
#27. The details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced.
Lauren Oliver
#28. I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is ... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
Vanessa Ferrari
#29. You think I don't know that, Cai?" Maris asked. "I live with him. He jumps at any sudden sound. Pulls a blaster on you if you so much as sneeze unexpectedly. And if that's not bad enough, he's walking around wired with enough explosives to take out half the capital city." Maris's
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months. ' I said, 'How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?' He said, 'All of them. '
Red Skelton
#31. It ruffles me a bit, not being able to tell apart my best friend from my girlfriend from this distance. But then one of the figures dashes across the sandy trail and jumps into my arms and I'm reasonably sure it's Liv and not Perry.
Veronica Rossi
#32. I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.
Norah Jones
#33. I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead, Robin jumps off the walls. It's fun showing that contrast.
Jim Lee
#34. Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillontines whoever is individual, superior, or just different.
Peter Viereck
#35. Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again, and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.
Eve Bunting
#36. A goblin thought jumps onto her shouder: what's the point of tomorrow?
M.L. Stedman
#37. I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
Deborah Eisenberg
#38. I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#39. A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold stove.
Mike Cameron
#40. The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.
Peter Greenaway
#41. We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
Phil Knight
#42. All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.
George Santayana
#43. [On her husband:] The other day he woke up with a headache. I felt sorry for him. I would like to help him but I can't. I told him so many times. When he jumps out of bed - it should be feet first.
Jean Carroll
#44. None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How would you turn Pride and Prejudice into a video game?' and 'If you added a button to Pac-Man, what would you want it to do?' Conundrums like 'How come when Mario jumps he can change direction in midair?
Austin Grossman
#45. He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
Howard Pyle
#46. If I could pick my own death, it would be on a roller coaster that jumps the tracks and careens into a packed crowd at a cotton candy stand at a state fair.
John Waters
#47. When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.
Jonathan Swift
#48. All the things I do in my videos - the jumps, twirls and back bends - will also be onstage.
Lindsey Stirling
#49. One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
Herbie Hancock
#50. Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.
Dominic Cooper
#51. Someone's going to be very pleased to see you."
"I don't think the Elector will be as excited as you think."
"I wasn't talking about the Elector."
My heart jumps at that.
Marie Lu
#52. For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.
Blythe Danner
#53. The difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire; is up to the individual in how they manage a given situation.
Stephen Richards
#54. A person who doesn't know exactly what he wants out of life, jumps at everything that appears silver in his way and hold tight onto them to the point degradation.
Darmie Orem
#56. A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can't even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me on edge. I suddenly want to do the same thing to her. Let her see how it feels to teeter on that cliff.
Nyrae Dawn
#57. I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two.
Stephen Lang
#58. Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. If I leave you as I found you, I am not God's channel. I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.
Smith Wigglesworth
#59. I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.
Billy Corgan
#60. I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.
Scott Foley
#61. No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.
Max Born
#62. And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.
Sean William Scott
#63. When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.
Jason Dohring
#65. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs.
Amy Poehler
#66. Just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
Mikhail Bulgakov
#67. I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.
Hugh Shelton
#68. She jumps on me for sharing pain with the living, but she tries to share it with the dead.
Octavia E. Butler
#69. When logics die,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
Dylan Thomas
#70. Sir, yes, sir!' Tyler jumps up mock-saluting. 'I love when you get bossy, it's kind of adorable
Kiersten White
#71. Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.
Sascha Radetsky
#72. Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar.
English Translation.
Oh Khusrau, the river of love
Runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns,
And one who drowns, gets across.
Amir Khusrau
#73. Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey - flat or jumps - there's ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement.
Tony McCoy
#74. No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.
David R. Ellis
#75. A door jumps
out from shadows,
then jumps away. This
is what I've come to find:
the back door, unlatched.
Tooled by insular wind, it
slams and slams
without meaning
to and without meaning.
Li-Young Lee
#76. In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.
Claudio Ranieri
#77. For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
Joaquin Phoenix
#78. Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
#79. A man thinks he can fly, but he is afraid to jump. A poor friend pushes him from behind." He looks up at me. "A good friend jumps with.
Pierce Brown
#80. Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.
Lei Jun
#81. We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.
Shaun White
#82. I'd like to do one of those jumps they do in the movies; in a car, over a bridge, in the air with a huge explosion. It would be a final moment of entertainment.
Jerry Seinfeld
#83. In through the front door, Once around the back, Peek through the window, And off jumps Jack. - A RHYME TO TEACH CHILDREN TO KNIT
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#84. Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat?
CM Punk
#85. Going to one school from age five to age eighteen was like being buried in amber. It wasn't even like his walls, which were covered with layers of things - you had to be the same person from start to finish, with no big cognitive jumps.
Emma Straub
#86. Celibacy is like poetry keeping the idea ever in mind like a dream; but marriage uses chisel and brush, concentrating more on marble and canvas. Celibacy jumps to a conclusion like an intuition; marriage, like reason, labors through ebb and flow, step by step.
Fulton J. Sheen
#87. They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles; Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bungee jumping.
Neal Stephenson
#88. When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.
Adrian Rogers
#89. It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven't made are the real source of regrets in your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. The mind is like an iceberg full of penguins, but when another penguin jumps up, one on the other side falls off. So it is with the mind, if one wants to force bad things out one must keep the good penguins on and force the bad ones out.
Unknown
#92. He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
Jean-Luc Godard
#93. Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.
Steve Antin
#94. I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.
William Katt
#95. I never look back and think too much about my films. I've done some work I've been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don't know. I could say the last one. I've had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly.
Clint Eastwood
#96. Whenever you feel happiness it is always from the inner. Then mind immediately jumps in and takes control and says, 'It is because of me.' When you are in love, it is like death, you feel blissful. Immediately mind comes in and says, 'Okay, this is me, this is because of me.'
Rajneesh
#97. I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.
Werner Heisenberg
#98. But the lawyer he jumps on the table and yells, and says: "Gentlemen - gentlemen! Hear me just a word - just a single word - if you please!
There's one way yet - let's go and dig up the corpse and look.
Mark Twain
#99. A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.
Alexei Yagudin
#100. Your brain is a forest,
And the nerves are trees.
When the branches touch,
Snaps jumps between the leaves.
Rich Shapero
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