Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Eddie Izzard

That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?

David Duval

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Carlos Beltran

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

Charlie Parker

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

Buddy Rich

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Ed Gillespie

Politics swings like a pendulum.

Benjamin Franklin

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Bob Hope

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

Charlie Sheen

Shooting a movie can be so tedious. You're trying to get 20 different angles on the same swing. You never get into a rhythm. But I took it very seriously.

Charles Krauthammer

For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

Ashley Johnson

Do you know what I like about this? We can actually get to the swings for Alyssa,

Augusten Burroughs

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

Brendan Fraser

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

Brendan Fraser

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

Alan Dershowitz

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

Artie Shaw

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

Artie Shaw

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

Elbert Hubbard

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Albert Einstein

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Albert Pujols

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

Angela Knight

Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what.

Dave Brubeck

I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

Alicia Witt

I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.

Alice Sebold

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.

Thomas Dolby

It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.

Rickey Henderson

I patterned myself after Reggie Jackson. I wanted to have that same swing and hit some homeruns. When I was down in A-ball, I was trying to be Reggie Jackson and I was striking out all the time. And I was like, 'This isn't the way Reggie is doing it, so I got to change.'

Suzy Bogguss

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

Ray LaHood

Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations!

Tony Blair

Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place