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Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about.”

Thinking Littles Shows Running Stuff Steps Team Basketball Mouths League Heat Dancer Nba Jumping Up And Down

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.”

Ifs Would Be Moving Fun Process Creative Too Much Good Things London Flying Moving Forward Planes Creative Process Jumping Too Much Work

Author:Tom Hanks

“On Death Valley, I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.”

Guy Fun Flying Valleys Pulling Jumping Garbage Werewolf Slam Triangles

Author:Caity Lotz

“I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.”

I Can Minutes Stage Singing Dancing Jumping Singing Dancing

Author:Sunidhi Chauhan

“A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.”

Littles Book Wonder Magic Teeth Titles Jumping Grit Cognitive Dissonance Jumping Off Cognitive Dissonance

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.”

Should Humans Art Running Form Imagination Movement Walking Art Is Dance Experts Jumping Refinement

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.”

Moments Light Music Is That Moment Airplane Gathering Jumping

Author:Stephan Jenkins

“I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.”

Thinking Trying Looks I Can Age Suffering Can Do Healthy Paid Lifestyle Swim Bike Jumping Up And Down Healthy Lifestyle Paid Off

Author:Jane Fonda

“Acting is a challenge at times. I mean, when you have scenes where you're jumping into a mascot bear to travel back in time, and you try to make that seem real. For me, I'm a person that has a pretty wild imagination, just kind of letting that run wild and sort of just doing the best you can to not feel stupid.”

Feels Trying Kind Mean Persons Real Seems Running Imagination Challenges Acting Stupid Bears Scene Jumping Back In Time Mascots Wild Imagination

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.”

Humans Children Joy Streets Dance Reactions Dancer Jumping

Author:Margot Fonteyn

“my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.”

Form Exercise Majors Conclusion Fitness Jumping Jumping To Conclusions

Author:J. A. Jance

“I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.”

Thinking Firsts Two Ideas Three Easy Answers Millions Red Dollars Hips Restaurants Barriers Acceptable Tape Chef Jumping Truck Million Dollars Fast Food Red Tape Food Trucks

Author:Tyler Florence

“My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.”

Years Children Black Childhood Changed Ego Garden Horse Storm Jumping Alter Ego Bamboo

Author:Romola Garai

“What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide”

Ifs Feels Doe Care Suicide Bridges Nuts Jumping Batting If You Care Committing Suicide Jumping Off Jumping Off A Bridge

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film I can't sit still.”

Stills I Can Bigs Lasts Film Comedy Periods Mood Genre Last Time Jumping

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“There's always that jumping off place when you're doing a sex scene when you can tell the crew's like, 'OK, it's comin'. At this point, it's actually not a big deal.”

Bigs Sex Deals Scene Crew Jumping Big Deal Jumping Off

Author:Taylor Schilling

“You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.”

Opportunity Given Path Boards Jumping

Author:Avan Jogia

“I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life.”

Done Loses Training Weight Work Out Jumping Rope Stairs Calories Circuits Lose Weight Circuit Training

Author:LeAnn Rimes

“I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.”

Action Used Enjoy Pay Risk Opposites Paid Jumping Bungee Jumping Bungee

Author:Akshay Kumar

“whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.”

“I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.”

Way Writing Used Building Used To Be Jumping Cliffs Outlines Obsessive Parachutes Jumping Off Jumping Off A Cliff

Author:Robin Wasserman

“I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.”

Bits Holes Bloody Jumping Verge

Book:Dalva

Source: Dalva

“A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.”

Known Team Findings Woods Broads Jumping Grenade Slumps

Author:Mark Grace

“I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing “Jailhouse Rock,” the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.”

Girl Three Heard Rocks Dad Sitting Originals Versions Stations Nuts Jumping Up And Down My Girl

Author:Garth Brooks

“Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.”

Trying Stills Love Is Situation Leap Jumping Cliffs Variables Jumping Off Jumping Off A Cliff

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.”

People Ifs Ends Flower Throat Jumping

Author:Richard Branson

“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.”

Enough Games Successful Dare Flight Fancy Allowing Articles Clothings Reverse Competitors Jumping Thirteen

Author:Peter Greenaway

“I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.”

People Ifs Thinking Wanted Funny Understanding Mets Understood Dance Ecstasy Load Jumping Barns Methodists Dehydration

Author:Victoria Wood

“As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.”

Fun Emotion Audience Seeing Masters Directors Ultimate Jumping Puppets Puppet Master

Author:Fede Alvarez

“A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.”

Ifs Men Persons Choices Fall House Causes Enemy He Man Broken Arms Members Standing Legs Burning Broke Misfortunes Jumping Limbs Burning House Standing Down

Author:Isaac Deutscher

“Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.”

Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

“A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train.”

Want Said Different Wanted Dies Thousand Train Disappear Rhythm Wheels Jumping Geography Jumping Off Wanted To Die

Book:Music of the Swamp

Source: Music of the Swamp

“I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.”

“At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.”

Giving Should Film Left Flight Viewers Jumping Skis Best Film

Author:Michael Haneke

“After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.”

Thinking Mind Sometimes Dream Light Sleep Doors Feet Strange Bed Window Rational Curious Fancy Thoughtful Jumping Stout Jumping In

Book:Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786

Source: Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786

“As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.”

“Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.”

Source: Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

“If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.”

Ifs Should Theory Involved Sorry Quantum Mechanic Jumping Involvement Quantum Mechanics Quantum Theory

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“I learned something from a string of failed relationships. You don't see a pattern quickly. You see it over time. I learned to stop jumping in at the first sign of attraction. As soon as you're attracted to someone, you go for it - whether or not it's a good idea. Basically, just going out and getting laid.”

Firsts Ideas Patterns Attraction Strings Good Ideas Going Out Jumping Getting Laid Jumping In Attracted To Someone Failed Relationship

Author:James McAvoy

“I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Stuff Effort Cutting Havens Noses Bloody Jumping Jumping In

Author:Tom Weston-Jones

“We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.”

Different Past Support Minutes Uncomfortable Jumping Pins Live In The Present Posture Different Experiences

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.”

Light Eye Lying Behinds Cases Products Discovery Inevitable His Eyes Bombs Liars Flash Jumping Involuntary Quackery

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.”

Men Giving Wells Ends Done Might Certain Freedom Known Struggle He Man Giving Up Claims Aim Currents Committed Chosen Customs Jumping Usage Yoke Niagara Jumping In

Author:Anna Brackett

“Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.”

Want Body Seems Beautiful Joy Water Beauty Millions Bigger Fishes Terror Tiny Flying Decay Jumping Glitter Luminous Gleam Jumping In

Author:Curt Siodmak

“Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.”

“Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)”

Men Attention Car Huge Becoming Office Excited Ministers Prime Old Man Prime Minister Jumping Policemen Bodyguard Entourage

Author:Shimon Peres

“I am a fairly physical guy I stay in shape and do a lot of karate and that kind of stuff. I prefer to do my own stunts if it's possible. I'm not jumping off burning buildings or something, but rolling around and getting knocked down and stuff like that I get a kick out of.”

Ifs Kind Guy Stuff My Own Building Shapes Down And Burning Kicks Rolling Jumping Karate Knocked Down Jumping Off Burning Buildings

Author:Nick Damici

“You get to shoot things, and things blow up, and you're jumping off of buildings. It's insane! And hot girls. And you get to dress cool. And you're in a movie with Tom Cruise, come on! So it's a dream come true. Truly.”

Dream Girl Building Hot Dresses Blow Insane Toms Dreams Come True Jumping Cruise Jumping Off Hot Girl

Author:Josh Holloway

“Nearly anything you need to get at the gym you can get naturally.A lot of training I do is running up hills, running up steps, just in the woods behind my house. Jumping on to things. All these things you can do anywhere, you don't have to go to the gym.”

Needs Running House Can Do Behinds Steps Training Woods Hills Gym Jumping

Author:Greg Rutherford

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