Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...

Wynton Marsalis

Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others

Wynton Marsalis

Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Wynton Marsalis

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

Frederick W. Smith

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

John Green

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

Marya Hornbacher

I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.

Nancy Lopez

My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

Matt Damon

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These Actor s end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. I know that's the way Heath Ledger feels and Ben Affleck feels the same way, too. We want to take the big swings...

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

John Keker

He could kibbutz at most. He didn't run China. Other people did.

Bill Cowher

Whatever happens, and you kind of deal with the circumstances that you are dealt with. I think, at this point, that is the mindset that we have to have and we will deal with whatever decisions or other choices we have at that time. I am not going to waste any time thinking about that or talking about that.

Lana Stanley

What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom and pop stores' they will go away and then their only choices will be the 'big boxes' and they know that they won't be happy with those as their only choices.

Tom Wood

I think we showed a little character. We kind of hung in there and that was nice to see. We missed some shots and made some funny choices with what we wanted to do with the basketball, but we managed to win the game.

Richard Bach

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

Rose McGowan

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

Truman Capote

I live in Brooklyn. By choice,

Rob Bell

This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.

Richard Rohr

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.

Tori Amos

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.