Jumped Quotes
329 quotes by 277 authors
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By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it.
— Karl Pilkington
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Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you are scared,…
— Amy Poehler
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I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today: Listen.…
— Amy Poehler
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Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's…
— Paul McCartney
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I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.
— Michael Trucco
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I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball…
— Shimon Peres
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Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!
— Imogen Cunningham
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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
— Chinua Achebe
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Now, they're saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and…
— Eric Massa
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
— Hafez
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You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my…
— Kristan Higgins
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The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
— William Bernbach
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To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by…
— Mavis Gallant
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My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him…
— John McGahern
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It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of…
— Jesse Owens
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Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes…
— Philip Reeve
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Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
— Clark Gable
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I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and…
— Dick Dale
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I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.
— David R. Ellis
Who Wrote These Jumped Quotes
277 authors contributed a total of 329 Jumped Quotes, led by these top contributors: