Famous Quotes & Sayings

The amazing thing is we've had no jumping pits. We've been jumping in the grass and stuff like that. We're always strong in the relays though. I'm really proud of the kids' efforts.

Senator Kerry

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their partys base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.

Izabella Scorupco

For six months we were running every day, jumping every day. I felt so strong - physically and mentally - after making this movie.

Fund families are rolling these out all the time. We?d rather see everyone jumping on this bandwagon than launching hot sector funds.

Simon Bird

If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But underneath it all it is a family, so we all love each other.

Jack Roush

If (a racer) gets a chance to race more, he'll do a better job for you. If they put themselves in a situation with good equipment, it doesn't worry me. What worries me is the off-the-track stuff. Carl Edwards is off jumping dirt bikes now. That worries me.

George Soros

I don't think you will see the Fed jumping to interest rates,

I don't think it's made a massive difference, I think there's been a lot of conjecture about this new rule (faster kick-ins) and what a massive difference it's going to make ... but I think it's a little bit of jumping at shadows.

Barry Hannah

I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

Brett Ratner

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

Archimedes

Eureka! Eureka! Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.

Archie Shepp

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

Alexandra Fuller

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

Make sure you give them one look at the basket and you really have to rebound. We're not going to win a jumping contest.

Joss Whedon

Let's say it's a good jumping off point,

Last year, we were still jumping around at this time.

Scott taught me a lot on general high jumping stuff, using my forearms and trying to keep me relaxed. He taught me how not to always be in such a hurry and missing stuff.

Scott asked me after the game if he should have shot more or passed more. I said shoot more. But Aurora Christian did a good job of jumping out on him. They definitely had an idea that he was a good shooter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

So I said to myself, you know, 'I'm tired of the same things.' You know. Jumping over car hoods at three in the morning. And then going up to someone and says, 'I'm back.' You know and then blow him away or something. So all of this is great. But I mean, eventually it gets old.

She's still got room for improvement. She's got great jumping ability. She's getting stronger and her technique's getting better. But what she's done this year is nothing to take lightly.

Wayne Williams

She was a little off of what she was consistently jumping (coming into the meet).

She's a super good athlete, good jumping legs on her. She needs to work on here speed and strength a little bit, but she's doing well right now.

She could easily have never skied again. When you're 40, 50 feet in the air and a puff of wind comes along and kind of blows you off course, you can end up with a bad problem. ... It's like jumping out of a third-story window and landing on your feet.

Rafael Bejarano

She didn't like the dirt in her face and started jumping around. She started to close strongly at the three-eighths pole but then started jumping around again.

(Shanahan) gave us a time limit (but I was) still nervous after the time limit. I'm (thinking), 'Just wait it out, just wait it out.' The phone kept ringing, and I'm jumping to it.

She is an excellent passer and defender, but the jumping at outside hitter is hard on her knees. You can tell she loves back row by how hard she plays.

What we lack in height we make up for in jumping ability. I think I've got some great little athletes in the packages they're in.

There are faculty members there I know I will keep in touch with for the rest of my life. They have taught me extremely valuable skills, and the best thing is I was able to utilize resources available to me for high school and my brief undergraduate career. There is a real push for high school ... to become more of a jumping board. With LCC I got my general education out of the way. Even if I flip majors, I am ahead of the game. And all of my credits are transferable to a four-year university.

We heard rumors of the possibility of Elk Rapids and St. Francis showing interest (in the Northwest). Instead of just letting them go, we're trying to be pro-active. Instead of just jumping leagues, why can't we take both leagues and work them together?

Barbara Kingsolver

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.

Ashley Wagner

The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.

This rally will probably be short-lived. I still think there's a lot of risk in this sector. Growth is still slow so investors should be wary of jumping in to the stocks.

There are two stories to the origin. The first one involves a bunch of guys who got together for a horse race in England during the 1800s. The weather was bad and they did not want to risk hurting their expensive horses, so they ran the race themselves. The second was a (horse) race where there was so much fog no one could see. They ran from church steeple to church steeple in each town. Supposedly that's how it got its name. Either way, the event came from people running from town-to-town and jumping over fences, creeks and whatever else was in the way.