Jumped Quotes
329 quotes by 265 authors
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Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the…
— Cesar Millan
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
— Marilyn Monroe
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I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents…
— Mandy Moore
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People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty…
— Robert Plant
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At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with…
— Dennis Rodman
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When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
— Bill Sienkiewicz
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I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.
— Jesse Ventura
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated…
— E. O. Wilson
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
— Kate Winslet
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I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school.…
— Brian K. Vaughan
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Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it. "Good thinking,"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody…
— Toni Morrison
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I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what…
— Paul Auster
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And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took…
— Diablo Cody
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Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs…
— Junot Diaz
Who Wrote These Jumped Quotes
265 authors contributed a total of 329 Jumped Quotes, led by these top contributors: