Leaps Quotes
139 quotes by 131 authors
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I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
— Cecil Taylor
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new…
— Jack Kroll
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We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution…
— Margaret Heffernan
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Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the…
— Sharon Olds
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Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The…
— Walt Whitman
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The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.
— Lyn St. James
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As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run…
— Robert Macfarlane
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After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful…
— Maureen Forrester
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History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma…
— Mark Slouka
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My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who…
— A.M. Homes
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When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a tiny…
— William A. Patterson
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Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.
— Astro Teller
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Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing…
— Charlie Brooker
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With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What…
— Kwame Dawes
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Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents,…
— Sandy Gingras
Who Wrote These Leaps Quotes
131 authors contributed a total of 139 Leaps Quotes, led by these top contributors: