Jump Quotes

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way. View quote
Syd Barrett
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. View quote
Margaret Mead
It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it. View quote
Claudette Colbert
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. View quote
Václav Havel
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. View quote
Ray Bradbury
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. View quote
Sydney Smith
Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down. View quote
Daniel Steele
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window. (Buster Keaton)
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. View quote
Robert Frost
I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him. View quote
Anne Bancroft
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. View quote
Corrie Ten Boom
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out. View quote
Bohumil Hrabal
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: «It's gonna go wrong.» Or «She's going to hurt me.» Or, «I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore ...» Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down. View quote
Ray Bradbury
You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains. View quote
Bill Mauldin
Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation. (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau)
I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere. View quote
Piper Perabo
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. View quote
Todd Solondz
The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty. View quote
Will McDonough
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don't believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens. View quote
Angelina Jolie