Quotes of Swinging - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Hank Aaron

“ 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. ”

- Frank Capra

“ I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X. ”

- Norah Jones

“ Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string. ”

- Hugh Kingsmill

“ 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. ”

- Babe Ruth

“ 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. ”

- Eugene Field

“ I wasn't sure at first-I didn't want to run around in tights, swinging a sword. ”

- Leonardo DiCaprio

“ Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. ”

- Duke Snider

“ All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was passe at the time. ”

- David Bailey

“ 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. ”

- Michael Bamberger

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

- Eric Hoffer

“ Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows. ”

- P.A. Fiorentino

“ There's a whole army of people looking after you to make sure that you're not in any kind of danger. I mean, even when you're up swinging off a wire, there's people there checking everything. Everything is double checked and triple checked before you go anywhere near it… ”

- Alfred Molina

“ 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.'. ”

- Tommy Cooper

“ The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth… ”

- Elwyn Brooks White
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