Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Ed Gillespie

Politics swings like a pendulum.

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.

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.

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.

Ashley Madekwe

I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

Augusten Burroughs

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

Albert Einstein

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

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It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had.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.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

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.

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.

Albert Pujols

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

Davey Havok

I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

David Ortiz

I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it.

David Ortiz

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

Dave Brubeck

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

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.

John Mulaney

I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?

Geoffrey Boycott

(James) Anderson has a gift from the gods: he could swing an orange.