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“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
“In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room”
Lewis Carroll
“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
“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
“When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”
D.H. Lawrence
“You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?”
Johnny Knoxville
“I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.”
William Irwin Thompson
“Of course, it’s a bit of a jump, isn’t it? I mean, er… chartered accountancy to lion taming in one go… You don’t think it might be better if you worked your way towards lion taming, say via banking?”
Monty Python
