Swings Quotes:

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Opportunity, Swings, Doors

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

- Alan Dershowitz

topic: Ideas, Swings, Liberty

Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.

- Alan Shepard

topic: Golf, Swings, Hands

I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.

- Alan Shepard

source: "Lunar-Golfer Shepard Takes Swings In Tourney". The Orlando Sentinel, p. A2, August 13, 1992.

topic: Moon, Swings, Earth

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

- Albert Murray

source: Albert Murray (1970). “The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy”

topic: Men, Swings, Medicine

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

- Albert Pujols

topic: Swings, Trying, Balls

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 of thought resuscitation.

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: War, Mean, Swings, Resuscitation

I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.

- Alicia Witt

source: "Witt's Beginning: Alicia Witt Struts Her Stuff in the New Comedy 'Playing Mona Lisa'" by Christopher Null, filmsite.org, October 17, 2000.

topic: Swings, Bipolar, Passionate, Mood Swing

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

- Alistair Cooke

source: Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.62, Arcade Publishing

topic: Golf, Swings, Practice, Involving

The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Graduation, Swings, Chance

Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what.

- Angela Knight

source: Angela Knight (2011). “Master of Shadows”, p.67, Penguin

topic: Swings, Hey, Sawdust, Norman Conquest

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

- Antonio Carlos Jobim

topic: Swings, United States, Cuba, Vicinity

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Swings

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Greatness, Swings, Ideas

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

topic: Pain, Blessing, Swings, Pendulums

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

- Artie Shaw

topic: Swings, Nouns, Musician

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

- Artie Shaw

topic: Swings, Band, Firsts

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

- Artie Shaw

topic: Thinking, Swings, Said

I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

- Ashley Madekwe

topic: Swings, Mood, Mood Swing

Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Acceptance, One Direction, Swings, Pendulums, Right Choices

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Swings, Laughing, Made, Lemonade, Porch

The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.

- Austen Chamberlain

source: "The Crisis of Conservatism" by E. H. H. Green, London: Routledge, (p. 141), 1996.

topic: Party, Men, Swings, Liberal Party, Labour Party

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

- Babe Ruth

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Swings, Missing, Yankees Baseball, Great Baseball

You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

- Barry Lyga

source: Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.370, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Swings

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Golf, Swings, Judging

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

- Ben Hogan

source: Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

topic: Golf, Hair, Swings, Inspirational Golf, Motivational Golf

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Believe, Golf, Swings, Golf Swing

The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

- Benjamin Graham

source: Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

topic: Intelligent, Swings, Optimism, Unjustified

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

- Benjamin Rush

topic: Bible, Heart, Swings

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

- Beth Henley

source: "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

topic: Beautiful, Swings, People

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

- Bette Davis

topic: Nice, Grandmother, Swings, Starlets, Backsides

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

- Bill Simmons

source: "Interview with Bill Simmons, Author of The Book of Basketball". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

topic: Writing, Golf, Swings

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

- Billy Sunday

topic: Sports, Swings, Doors, Saloons

A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen

- Bob Brookmeyer

topic: Song, Swings, Skills, Musicality

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

- Bob Goff

topic: Swings, Needs

Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.

- Bob Goff

topic: Swings, Dust, Screw Ups, Meticulous, Three Strikes

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

- Bob Hope

topic: Swings, Comedy, Rich

When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better.There are good times coming.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Swings, Get Better, Good Times, Things Will Get Better

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

- Bobby Bonilla

topic: Sports, Swings, Bats, Sheffield, Picky

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Golf, Thinking, Swings, Inspirational Golf, Great Golf

You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch.

- Bobby Murcer

topic: Thinking, Swings, Focus

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

- Branch Rickey

topic: Baseball, Men, Swings, Exactitude, Syllables

The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness

- Brandon Mull

topic: Light, Swings, Darkness, Pendulums

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.

- Branford Marsalis

source: "Jennifer Lopez Talks Body Image And Finding Her Way In Hollywood". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2013.

topic: Swings, Use, Care

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them

- Brendan Fraser

topic: Character, Swings, Cartoon, Cartoon Character

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

- Brendan Fraser

topic: Swings, Guy, Cartoon

If I was a girl I'd still swing both ways anyway.

- Brian Molko

topic: Girl, Swings, Way

If I have a swing, I have a shot.

- Bubba Watson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Swings, Shots

If I've got a swing, I've got a shot.

- Bubba Watson

topic: Golf, Swings, Shots

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

- Bubba Watson

source: "Masters champion Bubba Watson returns to action with 'Bubba golf'" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

topic: Mean, Golf, Swings, Homegrown, Golfing

You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts.

- Buddy Rich

topic: Swings, Play, Guy

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

- Buddy Rich

topic: Swings, Band, Drummer

It's much easier to have one swing thought than many.

- Butch Harmon

topic: Golf, Swings, Easier

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

- Byron Nelson

topic: Golf, Swings, Bags, Golfing, Golf Swing

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

- Carol Mann

topic: Mistake, Golf, Swings, Golf Swing

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

- Carol Mann

topic: Heart, Golf, Swings

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.

- Carol Plum-Ucci

topic: Swings, Wind, Mind

For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Swings, People, Common Sense, Pendulums

I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing.

- Charles Mingus

topic: Boys, Swings, Hands, Little Boys

On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

- Charles Portis

source: Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.51, A&C Black

topic: Men, Swings, Medicine, Methodists

Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.

- Charles Webster Hawthorne

source: Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

topic: Swings, Missing, Bigger

My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.

- Charlie Day

topic: Cousin, New Orleans, Swings, Baton Rouge, Music Fans

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

- Charlie Parker

topic: Swings, Use, Care

Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

topic: Relationship, Creating, Swings, Separateness

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 suggested we shoot webs out of our wrists and swing up there. We asked Vince not to contribute any more ideas.

- Chris Jericho

topic: Men, Swings, Wwe, Spider Man Movie

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

- Clara Barton

topic: Swings, Doors, Nurse, Inspirational Nurse, Red Cross

Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Keys, Swings, Doors, Individuation, Emanate

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Keys, Swings, Doors, Secret Doors

Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Golf, Swings, Practice, Trust Your Instincts

I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter,

- Count Basie

source: Count Basie, Albert Murray (1985). “Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie”, Plume

topic: Cutting, Thinking, Swings

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

- Count Basie

topic: Thinking, Swings, Feet

The election is in full-swing. Republicans have taken out round-the-clock ads promoting George Bush. Don't we already have that? It's called Fox News.

- Craig Kilborn

topic: Taken, Swings, News, Fox News

Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.

- Craig McDonald

topic: Swings, Texas, Hands, Gavel

It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

- Cynthia Lewis

topic: Reality, Swings, Accepting, Accepting Reality

Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ

- D. A. Carson

topic: Brother, Swings, Idols, Antithesis, Oscillation

My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.

- Daisy Whitney

topic: Mom, Swings, Faults

Swing hard in case you hit it.

- Dan Marino

topic: Golf, Swings, Cases, Humorous Golf, Baseball Games

Like they say, it ain't over 'til the fat guy swings

- Darren Daulton

topic: Sports, Swings, Guy

I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

- Dave Brubeck

topic: Swings, Teach

Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.

- Dave Winfield

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Swings, Trying

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

- David Duval

topic: Swings, Gone, Problem

Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.

- David Leadbetter

topic: Golf, Swings, Goal

Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.

- David Leadbetter

topic: Golf, Swings, Perfect

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

- David Ortiz

topic: Swings, Done, Whole Life

I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it.

- David Ortiz

topic: Swings, Cases

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

- David Ortiz

topic: Swings, Careers, Important

I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.

- David Ortiz

topic: Player, Swings, Giving

Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

- David Sedaris

topic: Dog, Swings, Wish

I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.

- Davis Love III

topic: Swings, Trying, Used

If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Fate, Love Is, Swings

She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity." "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing." "Don't even joke about that.

- Derek Landy

topic: Swings, Feelings, Humanity, Mood Swing

More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild

- Diane di Prima

topic: Swings, Together, Would Be, Love Poems, Syncopation

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

- Don Bluth

topic: Artist, Swings, Waiting, Back Again, Pendulums

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. ... [It] was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing.

- Donald Tsang

source: "HK's Tsang Apologises for Gaffe". news.bbc.co.uk. October 13, 2007.

topic: Mean, Swings, Hands

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

- Duke Ellington

source: 1965 Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.

topic: Music, Mean, Swings, Jazz And Life, Cool Jazz

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

- Duke Robillard

topic: Music, Country, Swings, Chicago Blues, Hillbilly

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

- Duke Snider

topic: Thinking, Swings, Hands

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

- Duke Snider

topic: Baseball, Swings, Balls, Little League Baseball

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

- Eban Goodstein

topic: Country, Swings, Energy

Everybody has two swings-a beautiful practice swing and the choked-up one with with which they hit the ball. So it wouldn't do either of us a damned bit of good to look at your practice swing.

- Ed Furgol

topic: Beautiful, Golf, Swings

Politics swings like a pendulum.

- Ed Gillespie

source: "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. April 12, 2005.

topic: Swings, Pendulums

Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.

- Edd Roush

topic: Swings, Bats, Balls, Bunting

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

- Edgar Guest

topic: Determination, Swings, Ends

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

- Edward Albee

topic: Fall, Swings, Events

The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

- Eldridge Cleaver

source: ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

topic: Life, Cutting, Swings, Dance Floor, American Way Of Life

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Adventure, Swings, Stories, Malediction

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Buddhist, Thinking, Swings, Monkey Mind, Undisciplined

EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.

- Ellen Malcolm

topic: Swings, Years, Cynical, Emily's

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Swings, Fearless, Ceilings

She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.

- Emma Donoghue

topic: Space, Swings, Feet

I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.

- Eva Longoria

topic: Swings, Talking, People

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

- Evan Davis

topic: Swings, Views, Way, Left Wing

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Thinking, Swings, People

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

- Frank Stallone

topic: Swings, Trying, Crosby

Lindy Hoppers never die - they just swing out.

- Frankie Manning

topic: Swings

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

- Fred Couples

topic: Player, Thinking, Swings

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, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

- Fred Couples

topic: Player, Swings, Iron, Banging

As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

- Fred Couples

topic: Golf, Swings, Technique, Playing Golf, Golfing

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

- Freema Agyeman

topic: Procrastination, Swings, Done

I never had any thought the whole week. I figured my caddie [Jerry Beard] knew the course a lot better than me, so I put out my hand and played whatever club he put in it. I'd say, "How hard do I hit it?" He'd tell me and I'd swing. The guys who come down here once a year and try to get smart with Mr. Jones' course are the dumb ones.

- Fuzzy Zoeller

topic: Smart, Golf, Swings

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

- Gary Player

topic: Golf, Thinking, Swings

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

- Geddy Lee

topic: Attitude, Responsibility, Swings, Derelict, Two Extremes

The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it

- George Knudson

topic: Golf, Swings, Purpose

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Golf, Swings, Practice, Humorous Golf, Great Golf

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,

- George V. Higgins

source: George V. Higgins (2012). “Defending Billy Ryan”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Swings, Merry Go Round

We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of stone are built out of men's visions. Towers and skyscrapers swing up out of their wills and up out of their hearts.

- Gerald Stanley Lee

source: Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”

topic: Heart, Men, Swings

And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

topic: Swings, Sea, Dumb, Hopkins

The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome ...

- Goliarda Sapienza

topic: Swings, Tree, Anxiety

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

- Graham Greene

topic: Men, Swings, Discovery, Exhilaration, Pendulums

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

- Grantland Rice

topic: Golf, Swings, Dandelions

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

- Grantland Rice

topic: Swings, Wind, Might

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

- Grantland Rice

topic: Golf, Simple, Swings, Roulette, Russian Roulette

My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

- Graydon Carter

topic: Prayer, Ideas, Swings

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

- Greg Ginn

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Rocks, Swings, Feelings

When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

- Hack Wilson

topic: Swings, Three, Balls

Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

- Hank Haney

topic: Simple, Thinking, Swings

"My swing is too fast" may be the biggest misconception ever. Think about it. If you take a fast, lousy swing and slow it down, all you've got left is a slow, lousy swing. Most people swing too slow, not too fast.

- Hank Haney

topic: Golf, Thinking, Swings

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

- Hans Bender

topic: Swings, Heaven, Soul, Above And Below

Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source of jazz. Naturally, improvisation and swing are a part of jazz, improvisation being the key.

- Harold Land

topic: Keys, Swings, Self, Jazz Improvisation, Primary Source

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

- Harry Connick, Jr.

topic: Swings, Blood, Voice

There are 100,000 total ***** smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from ***** usage. This ***** causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

- Harry J. Anslinger

topic: Marijuana, White, Swings

I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

- Harvey Penick

source: Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

topic: Believe, Golf, Swings

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

- Heather Wilson

topic: Past, Swings, Mexico, New Mexico

We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a lot of women go wrong. They should try to whack it a few times and see what happens.

- Helen Alfredsson

topic: Golf, Thinking, Swings, Acceleration, Tempo

Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.

- Henry Beard

topic: Golf, Swings, Balls

If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.

- Henry Beard

topic: Golf, Swings, Wind

Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

- Henry Ford

topic: Eye, Swings, Enthusiasm, Passion And Success, Energy And Enthusiasm

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.

- Horace Silver

topic: Music, Swings, Bebop, Broadway Shows

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

- Huston Smith

topic: Swings, Political, World, Millennium

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Business, Swings, Degrees, Motivational Business, Positive Business

A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.

- Ivanka Trump

topic: Swings, Balance, Impossible

As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter 53 than Jesus of Nazareth?

- J. Sidlow Baxter

topic: Jesus, Writing, Swings

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

- Jacqueline Woodson

topic: Swings, Long, Forever, Swing Sets

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

- James A. Michener

source: Ernest Hemingway, James A. Michener (1986). “The dangerous summer”, Scribner Book Company

topic: Writing, Swings, Emotion, Story Writing, Swirls

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

- James Hunt

topic: Swings, Racing, Luck

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

- James Wolcott

topic: Stars, Kings, Swings, Lion King, Hairspray

One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus

- Janet Morris

source: Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.56, Paradise Publishing

topic: Swings, Mind, Body

Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life.

- Janet Morris

topic: Determination, Heart, Swings

Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go.

- Jason Dufner

topic: Golf, Swings, Data

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

- Jay McShann

topic: Music, Swings, Play, Bebop

A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened... And then the days came and I was alone.

- Jean Rhys

topic: Beautiful, Nice, Swings

Make sure you put quality into every practice swing.

- Jeanette Lee

topic: Swings, Practice, Quality

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

- Jeffrey McDaniel

topic: Rip, Swings, Want, Parts Of Speech, Quotation Marks

Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.

- Jerry Pate

topic: Art, Golf, Swings, Golf Swing

Dennis Murray is a wonderful Golf Professional who is personable and skillful as an instructor. Dennis helped me work on my golf swing for a full week back in the 80's when I was still playing the PGA Tour. His instruction was great and helped my game very much.

- Jerry Pate

topic: Golf, Swings, Games

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Opportunity, Swings, Doors

Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.

- Jimmy Demaret

topic: Believe, Golf, Swings

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

- Joan Baez

topic: Swings, Way, Pleasure

I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

- John C. Reilly

topic: School, Swings, Dragons, Dungeons And Dragons

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

- John Lescroart

topic: Country, Swings, Band

I know there's a balance/I see it when I swing past.

- John Mellencamp

topic: Past, Swings, Balance

So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

- John Podesta

topic: Thinking, Swings, People, Pendulums

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

- John Updike

topic: Golf, Swings, Trying, Great Golf, Golf Jokes

There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

- Jonathan Turley

topic: Swings, Vote

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

- Jorge Posada

topic: Swings, Missing, Straight Up, Curveballs

I think we have reached such saturation levels, the money at this point doesn't swing election.

- Judy Woodruff

topic: Thinking, Swings, Levels, Saturation Point, Saturation

I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

- Juice Newton

topic: Rocks, Swings, Stuff

Swing easy and hit hard.

- Julius Boros

topic: Golf, Swings, Easy

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

- Katherine Paterson

source: Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

topic: Inspirational, Fear, Swings, Cancer Courage, Cancer Patients

There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.

- Kathy Whitworth

topic: Golf, Swings, Games

I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force.

- Keegan Bradley

topic: Swings, Wedges, Shots

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

- Kevin Costner

topic: Children, Rocks, Swings, Leaving A Legacy

I had an ASU student looking for it in my shop last week, and he defined the Bacchants for me as 'those drunk chicks who killed that one dude because he wouldn't have sex with them.' His professors must be so proud. I asked him if he knew what maenads were, and instead of correctly answering that it was just another name for Bacchants, he bizarrely thought I was referring to my own testicles - as in, "'Ere now, mate, don't swing that bat around me nads.'" The conversation deteriorated quickly after that.

- Kevin Hearne

topic: Sex, Swings, Names, Testicles, Maenads

New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

- Kevin Mitnick

topic: Cat, Swings, Games, Loopholes, Cat And Mouse

i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.

- Laura Whitcomb

source: Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Passion, Swings, Different

All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

- Lee Krasner

source: Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press

topic: Moving, Swings, Conformity, Non Conformity, Composites

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Golf, Swings, Lunch, Great Golf, Funny Golf

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Golf, Swings, Lessons, Golfing

I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Golf, Swings, Way

I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Two, Swings, Play

Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Golf, Winning, Swings, Only Thing That Matters

I was just born to swing, that's all.

- Lil Hardin Armstrong

topic: Women, Swings, Born

I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the more distant the forecast time. I'm a strong believer in chaos theory.

- Linda Bradford Raschke

topic: Strong, Believe, Swings, Chaos Theory

Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet

- Lorde

source: Song: Still Sane, Album: Pure Heroine, 2013

topic: Mean, Swings, Really Mean

When Alani started to speak, Jackson held up a finger. In the past five minutes, he'd had more mood swings than a menopausal woman. First turned-on, then territorial, bored, aggressive and now on alert.

- Lori Foster

topic: Past, Swings, Bored, Mood Swing

The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

- Louis Aragon

topic: Marine, Men, Swings, Resemblance, Tresses

Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.

- Mabel Osgood Wright

source: Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

topic: Garden, Swings, Years, Lamentation, Indigestion

Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts

- Marc Andreessen

topic: Running, Home, Swings, Strikeouts, Home Run

It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.

- Margaret George

source: Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

topic: Fate, Swings, Support, Ledges

Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.

- Marilu Henner

topic: Swings, Brain, Balance, Processed Food, Mood Swing