Top 26 Somersaults Quotes
#1. The world's evaluations of an individual's social worth, like the slits in my eyeballs, change with time and circumstance. In point of fact my pupil-slits vary but modestly between broad and narrow, but mankind's judgements turn somersaults and cartwheels for no conceivable reason.
Soseki Natsume
#2. There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
Beverly Sills
#3. I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#4. My stomach somersaults
he wants me ... in a weird way, true, but this beautiful, strange, kinky man wants me.
E.L. James
#5. It occurred to me that the movement of the amputated knob perfectly schematized what it would look like for someone to try to turn somersaults with one hand nailed to the floor. This was how I first became interested in the possibilities of annulation.
David Foster Wallace
#6. I heard, for the first time - nothing. I danced and did somersaults, lay down in a bed of grass, felt the breeze.
And for the first time, I heard my heart, and I knew who I was.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#7. Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.
Donald O'Connor
#8. Happiness is so rare that our mind can turn somersaults to protect it.
David Henry Hwang
#9. All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.
Ellen Hopkins
#10. Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.
Ilie Nastase
#11. as for exercise! why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land.
Jerome K. Jerome
#12. His knowledge of country lore was a little hazy, but he felt fairly sure that if the cows lay down, it meant rain. If they were standing it would probably be fine. These cows were taking it in turns to execute slow and solemn somersaults; and Tyler wondered what it presaged for the weather.
Terry Pratchett
#13. I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.
Ann Widdecombe
#14. When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson
#15. Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.
Max Tundra
#16. I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
Les Dawson
#17. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
#18. I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice?
David Wong
#19. Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family.
Stefan Molyneux
#21. It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
Theodore Parker
#23. Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.
Robert Kiyosaki
#24. There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.
Jack Nicklaus
#25. Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.
Pete Carroll
#26. I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison called freedom.
Lionel Suggs
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