Quotes about Swinging

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now. Votes: 3

Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem. Votes: 3

Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots. Votes: 3

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. Votes: 3

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. Votes: 3

All that Swinging Sixties. It didn’t do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I never really enjoyed the sex. Votes: 3

Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Votes: 3

The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp. Votes: 2

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging. Votes: 2

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs. Votes: 2

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. Votes: 2

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. Votes: 2

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament. Votes: 2

My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things. Votes: 2

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Votes: 2

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. Votes: 2

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. Votes: 2

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show. Votes: 2

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway. Votes: 2

With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy. Votes: 2

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected. Votes: 2

The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing. Votes: 2

It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed. Votes: 2

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way. Votes: 2

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work. Votes: 2

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.' Votes: 2

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing. Votes: 2

I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat. Votes: 2

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 actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. Votes: 2

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. Votes: 2

Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock. Votes: 2

The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical. Votes: 2

I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do. Votes: 2

Know yourself and go in swinging. Votes: 0

Now there's a grown-up swinging town. Votes: 0

If your gonna go down, go down swinging! Votes: 0

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat. Votes: 0

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging. Votes: 0

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I. Votes: 0

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door. Votes: 0

I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler. Votes: 0

Every now and then they threw one where I was swinging. Votes: 0

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing. Votes: 0

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. Votes: 0

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging. Votes: 0

Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life. Votes: 0

The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up. Votes: 0

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. Votes: 0

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do. Votes: 0

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it. Votes: 0

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one. Votes: 0

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century. Votes: 0

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms. Votes: 0

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree. Votes: 0

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too. Votes: 0

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. Votes: 0

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it. Votes: 0

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them. Votes: 0

If the rhythm section is really swinging it's such a great feeling - you just want to laugh! Votes: 0

I challenge you to a duel!" screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier. Votes: 0

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars. Votes: 0

Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader Votes: 0

Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two. Votes: 0

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back. Votes: 0

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier. Votes: 0

Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues. Votes: 0

I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes. Votes: 0

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging. Votes: 0

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields. Votes: 0

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it. Votes: 0

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts. Votes: 0

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity. Votes: 0

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. Votes: 0

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging. Votes: 0

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood. Votes: 0

Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt. Votes: 0

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being. Votes: 0

I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time. Votes: 0

MUSIC. Tunneling right down into your CORE and SOULTIME. Hep, sloppy, SEXY and cerebral. Chancy and hip-swinging like ELVIS and your first teenage KISS. Votes: 0

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. Votes: 0

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything. Votes: 0

The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging. Votes: 0

Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole. Votes: 0

In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel. Votes: 0

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences. Votes: 0

I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles. Votes: 0

I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging. Votes: 0

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging. Votes: 0

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview. Votes: 0

[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives. Votes: 0

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. Votes: 0

Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat. Votes: 0

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. Votes: 0

Donald Trump's blaming the media, he's blaming the GOP, he's saying that America can't run a fair election. He is swinging at every phantom of his own imagination because he knows he's losing. Votes: 0

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era. Votes: 0

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees. Votes: 0

Can I be cocky for a second? If I hit a home run 80 percent of the times, and you want to talk about the 20 times I miss swinging the bat, I'm okay with that. Votes: 0

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing. Votes: 0

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner."He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it. Votes: 0

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it. Votes: 0

You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized. Votes: 0