Leaping Quotes

112 Leaping quotes by 95 unique authors

As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog… — Loren Eiseley
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the… — P.G. Wodehouse
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a… — D. H. Lawrence
You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man whoâ€™s leaping up and down on a bed. — John Irving
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done… — Matsuo Basho
It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something… — Daniel Handler
Elizabethâ€™s hands flew to her mouth; tears filled her eyes with happiness as she realized he was fulfilling yet another of her and her motherâ€™s… — Cecelia Ahern
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are… — Thomas Moore
Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when… — Herman Melville
Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a… — Michael Ondaatje
madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged. — Virginia Woolf
Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning… — Mikhail Bulgakov
i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything… — E E Cummings
But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. — John Updike
She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much… — Cassandra Clare
...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my… — Elias Canetti
when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because… — Jodi Picoult
With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of… — Jack London
We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but… — Francesca Lia Block
Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even. — Richelle Mead

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