Swinging Quotes
168 Swinging quotes by 152 unique authors
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A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a…
— Tommy Cooper
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The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
— Meister Eckhart
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
— Eric Hoffer
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I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter,…
— LL Cool J
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Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work…
— John C. Reilly
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
— Babe Ruth
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People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
— Rufus Sewell
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The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the…
— Tom Waits
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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective…
— Victor Hugo
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It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most…
— Upton Sinclair
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their…
— Lucille Clifton
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None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
— Ray Bradbury
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What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the…
— Khaled Hosseini
Who Wrote These Swinging Quotes
152 authors contributed a total of 168 Swinging Quotes, led by these top contributors: