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“Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a kid. I always wanted to follow in your footsteps. I pray for you every night. You’ve taught me to feel confident in myself, believe in myself that I can do it when I didn’t think I could do it. Dad, it’s been an up-and-down road for all of us, but you’ve always been there supporting from afar, texting me Bible verses every single day, telling me you love me every single day. That builds me up and I thank you so much. I love you. I’m just glad you’re part of this journey with us.”

“Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.”

Mind Mean Moving Lord Watches Atheism Dancing Positive Atheism Circles Nine Fantastic Spheres Physicians Cages Up And Down Forecasts Parrots Hopping

Author:Giordano Bruno

“Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.”

Thinking Way Humans Stories Moving Literature Human Beings Keys Letters Fingers Communicate Screens Loud Spells Translate Up And Down Telling Your Story

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.”

Men Looks Play Games Baseball Every Man Plenty Look Up Up And Down Benches There Comes A Time

Author:Casey Stengel

“If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?”

Ifs Long Play Causes Golf Teeth Why Not Hitting Spectators Up And Down Tournaments Stadiums

Author:Robert Harris

“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

“I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Bigs Pay Attention Careers Rocks Down And Noise Pay Attention Punk Gestures Relaxed Up And Down Punk Rock Cockroaches

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.”

“The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.”

Men Heart May Walks Alive Magic Up And Down

Book:The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.”

Years Has Beens Stills Levels Cycles Nerves Up And Down Dose Cycling Depressants

Author:Temple Grandin

“Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.”

Lying Passion Memories Feet Talent Genius Gratitude Mere Dry Up And Down Bosoms Ungrateful Swept Away Dry Leaves

Book:Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues

Source: Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues

“I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.”

Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono

“And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.”

Streets Towns Golden Evening Lamps Up And Down Torches Flare Roadside

Book:The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman

Source: The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman

“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

“I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.”

People Way Stills Mother Desire Girl Born My Own Steps Generations Taught Daughter Opposites Misery Raised Chinese My Daughter Bitterness Up And Down Stairs

Author:Amy Tan

“money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.”

Lying Order Wonder Changed Making Money Priests Exhausted Up And Down Wrecks Possessing

Book:The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays

Source: The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays

“All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?”

People Earth Water Pleasure Wonder Sea Travel Track Ships Streams Up And Down

Book:Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

Source: Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

“I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race”

Knows Faces Race One Thing Poet Kings Picks Down And Flats Get Back Up And Down Pirate Puppets Pawns

Author:Frank Sinatra

“We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.”

People Home Form Social Phones Entertainment Income Manage Plenty Cells Ladders Percentages Up And Down Cell Phone

Author:Michael Pollan

“There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially with small to medium sized companies. There's increasing evidence that a more flexible management style, where responsibility is distributed up and down the line, is what works best. And that kind of management style is one that will allow individual workers more flexibility - men and women.”

“What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also good for your mind and mental attitude. You can do simpler exercises, like getting up and down from a chair without using your hands. You can stay fairly flexible. The most important thing is to not become sedentary.”

Ifs Mind Important Hands Running Can Do Walks Attitude Exercise Important Things Chairs What If Flexible Up And Down Mental Attitude Sedentary

Author:Richard Simmons

“That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.”

Source: Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner

“Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.”

World Poor Streets Up And Down

Book:Her Soul and Her Body

Source: Her Soul and Her Body

“In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.”

Kind Different Goes On Theater Circles Parks Carrie Entertaining Amusement Up And Down Roller Coaster Coasters Amusement Parks Roller Coaster Rides

Author:Wallace Shawn

“I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.”

Thinking Actors Cold Hot Kicks Up And Down Hot And Cold

Author:Kevin Bacon

“It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.”

Long Parent Acting Company Careers Player Feet Land Stage India England Performing Courtesy Up And Down

Author:Felicity Kendal

“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'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

“I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.”

People Thinking Feet Rocks Balance Down And Assuming Tricks Noses Boards Timing Tails Intuitive Up And Down Manuals

Author:Tony Hawk

“I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre.”

“It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.”

Believe Sometimes Sound Silent Response Ghost Noise Pace Echoes Tempted Up And Down Footsteps Spooky Shady Old Time

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club. The old curiosity shop and other tales

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club. The old curiosity shop and other tales

“For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.”

Funny Deals Humorous Stones Wander Rolling Up And Down Rolling Stones Moss Rumours

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them.”

Suits Afternoon Up And Down Thighs Bathing Bathing Suits Scabs

Author:Cindy Crawford

“What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.”

Thinking Knows Helping Hands Light Grows Dark Forever Atheism Walking Positive Atheism Guides Trials Forests Wander Satan Up And Down Darling Lone Errands

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.”

People Want Care Deserve Vote Health Care Analysis Up And Down

Author:Valerie Jarrett

“Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.”

Musical Enthusiasm Up And Down Guitarist Vacuous

Author:John Maus

“In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like this particular tune and that one I like less. I think it's much better to get involved with an artist instead of riding up and down the works you like and disregard the works you don't like.”

Thinking World Want Artist Groups Particular Involved Albums Pops Tunes Riding Up And Down Get Involved Disregard

Author:Steve Reich

“God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.”

Jesus Divinity Up And Down Supposing

Author:William Blake

“I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.”

Up And Down Gowns

Book:Selected Poems of Amy Lowell

Source: Selected Poems of Amy Lowell

“Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.”

Moving Form Nature Change Natural Rocks Mountain Ocean Ghost Continents Up And Down

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.”

Knows Kind Stills Home Streets Roots Towns Definitions Wander Up And Down Home Town

Author:George McGovern

“English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.”

“We [Frisch and Lise Meitner] walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot (she said and proved that she could get along just as fast that way), and gradually the idea took shape that this was no chipping or cracking of the nucleus but rather a process to be explained by Bohr's idea that the nucleus was like a liquid drop; such a drop might elongate and divide itself.”

Way Said Ideas Might Process Feet Shapes Snow Divides Up And Down Liquid Skis Nucleus

Author:Otto Robert Frisch

“It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.”

Ifs Matter Band Beats Down And Prepared Up And Down

Author:Daniel Craig

“I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.”

Facts Problem Light Sound Voice My Own Interesting Brain Half Rich Tvs Huge Right Now Mouths Machines Hearing Shade Coming Out Up And Down Answering Machines

Author:Hugh Laurie

“There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.”

Looks Order Grows Shadow Horse Instance Restless Up And Down Psychologist Wavering

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.”

Wells Enough Eye Care Missing New York Promise South Dust March Up And Down Temperature Sirens Wenches

Author:E. B. White

“I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.”

Mother Walks Audience Feet Stage Legs Shoulders Shakes Hops Vulgar Up And Down Grind Bumps

Author:Elvis Presley

“On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant.”

Running Lasts Next Fire Hot Angry Species Workers Males Flight Grass Queens Native Concrete Protected Dirt Blades Up And Down Ants Nests Pouring Lawns Colony Sidewalk

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.”

Life Sometimes Fall Force Water Sun Balls Depth Casts Shooting Thrown Rays Fountain Up And Down Catching Ups & Downs Vicissitudes Gilded Shooting Up

Author:Lady Randolph Churchill