Swing Quotes
557 Swing quotes by 423 unique authors
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New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.
— Heather Wilson
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On…
— Don DeLillo
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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
— Elbert Hubbard
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My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
— Mose Allison
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There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created…
— Lou Engle
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I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing…
— Sammy Sosa
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I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
— Wynton Marsalis
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Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
— Bill Simmons
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My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we…
— Daisy Whitney
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My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and…
— Rory McIlroy
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A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I played a lot of baseball growing up, and I always hit better if I kept moving before the pitch instead of standing still in…
— Jason Dufner
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We both liked the idea but couldn't figure out a way to get up to the roof. Vince had just seen the Spider-Man movie and…
— Chris Jericho
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At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his…
— Richard E. Byrd
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There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the…
— Gore Vidal
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Swing at the strikes.
— Yogi Berra
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I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron,…
— Fred Couples
Who Wrote These Swing Quotes
423 authors contributed a total of 557 Swing Quotes, led by these top contributors: