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Quotes About Jumping

I sometimes like to do plyometric work which hits my core and the rest of my body at the same time: things like jumping to catch balls, box jumps, hurdling over cricket stumps, bounds, hops, or combined exercises like three jumps in a row followed by a sprint.
~ Jos Buttler
Every time you do something crazy, I can feel my little hairs committing suicide by jumping right out of my head and plunging all the way to my shoulders. If you listen carefully, you can sometimes hear them screaming all the way down.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I could feel the weight of everything then --- the weight of loneliness, of everything that had gone wrong. I felt heroic, going up those last few flights to the top of the building, dragging that weight along with me. Jumping felt like the only way to get rid of it, the only way to make it work for me instead of against me; I felt so heavy that I knew I'd hit the street in no time. I'd beat the world record for falling off a tower block.
~ Nick Hornby
the Indians simply outran them. "They made such enormous strides that with all our running and jumping we could not overtake them," Pigafetta noted.
~ Laurence Bergreen
It was no great gift, for there was mighty little wine left; but Signor Cavalletto, jumping to his feet, received the bottle gratefully, turned it upside down at his mouth, and smacked his lips.
~ Charles Dickens
I was in several bands before I joined Judas Priest. Being in those early unknown bands were the stepping stones, really, so I learned a lot in those short few years jumping from one band to another.
~ Rob Halford
Actually, the most difficult time I had was not in the mask. The first time you see 'Michael Myers', he doesn't have his mask yet, and he's jumping onto the back of a car. from the insane asylum.
~ Nick Castle
I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.
~ Art Linkletter
Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?" Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. "He - uh - I'm tutoring him." "She is," Han said solemnly. "She's very good. I'm learning a lot." Pearlie snickered. "What's she teaching you?" "Well," Han said, "we're jumping around a lot.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
~ David Lee Roth
There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
~ Tamra Davis
Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.
~ Devin Nunes
I thanked him and he asked me if my cape got caught on stuff when I was running and jumping, and I said, Sometimes.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
The ship was sinking and the rats were jumping overboard.
~ John Grisham
Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.
~ Carl Jung
my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.
~ J. A. Jance
I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
~ Emo Philips
In the meantime, Bob was jumping up and down and pronouncing it was all "good good good," so good that he couldn't stop giggling with self-satisfied glee like a demented toddler.
~ Meg Rosoff
And then like two people jumping off a rock into water, I guess we both fell helplessly into sleep. I'm not sure which of us gets there first.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Love was an accident waiting to happen, he decided. It was like throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping after it, convinced that you could catch it on the way down. He was falling but it didn't feel like a death plummet.
~ Michael Robotham