Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brendan Fraser

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

Ed Gillespie

Politics swings like a pendulum.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Buddy Rich

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

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.

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.

Carlos Beltran

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

When we had one (prairie dog) die, it was right under the swing set - right there.

I just get in there and swung the bat. You're not taking pitches. Just swing it and see what happens.

I just think I'm getting more comfortable with my swing and with myself as a ballplayer,

If there are big swings in the future, it could have an impact, but there hasn't been any for now.

Ivanka Trump

A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.

Ivanka Trump

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

Hans Bender

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

Mark Teixeira

I usually don't look at at-bats where I get out. I look at my hits. I look at good swings I put on balls. Because of that good swing or good at-bat, I can see what I need to continue to work on and recreate.

Marilu Henner

Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.

Nick Harkaway

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Mose Allison

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Mose Allison

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

Michael Biehn

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

Pat Metheny

I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more...To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.

James Hunt

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

Frederick W. Smith

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)

Nick Swisher

I'm being a lot more consistent, trying to make every swing look the same. I'm doing what the situation calls for and trying not to do too much.

Someone will swing for this later. There are no swingers up here,

Ashley Johnson

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

It's a little tougher than I wanted it to be, but we'll get back into the swing of things.

Stewart Cink

You have to just forget about the ball and swing the club. It's hard to see if you don't hit the green.

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!