(1323 quotes found)
“It's easier to leap if you're already dancing.”
Rain Bojangles
“Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.”
Danielle Steel
“Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.”
Tori Amos
“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”
Fran Lebowitz
“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
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown”
Adam Walinsky
“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
Coco Chanel