Jump Quotes
1239 Jump quotes by 962 unique authors
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I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody…
— Jerry Garcia
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No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to…
— Donald Miller
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It’s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It’s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around.…
— Kay Ryan
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Artemis: "Right, brothers. Onward. Imagine yourself seated at a cafe in Montmartre." Myles: "In Paris." Artemis: "Yes, Paris. And try as you will, you cannot…
— Eoin Colfer
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Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was…
— Annie Dillard
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No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear…
— Bohumil Hrabal
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It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated.…
— Janet Fitch
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You ever watch a football game and get totally into it? Why? It's not a real battle. It's just a game somebody made up. So…
— Pete Hautman
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This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually…
— Sarah Dessen
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Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
— Jodi Picoult
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That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.
— Raymond Carver
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She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. "The arks are after me! The arks are after me!…
— Ted Dekker
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I'm just going to jump and say:hey Mom, Dad, I'm gay, What's for dessert?
— Kathe Koja
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
— Maya Angelou
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When you have to jump, you jump.
— Brandon Mull
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Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building.
— Ilona Andrews
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When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
— Brian Greene
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The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark…
— J M Coetzee
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But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to…
— Sarah Dessen
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It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing…
— George Carlin
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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people…
— Douglas Coupland
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If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.
— Marilyn Manson
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…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people…
— John Green
Who Wrote These Jump Quotes
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