Leap Quotes - page 12

Just try and keep up with those feet of his sometime! Try and look graceful while thinking where your right hand should be, and how your head should be held, and which foot you end the next eight bars on, and whether you're near enough to the steps to leap up six of them backward without looking. Not to mention those Astaire rhythms. Did you ever count the different tempos he can think up in three minutes? (Fred Astaire)
At some point, the novelist has to leap head first into the pool of imagination in order to more freely explore the truth. View quote
Carolina de Robertis
It gave people a great leap of hope, made people feel good. This was a world that could get better, a whole lot better. I might say to those who stuck with it in some way or other they will still swear by the values of the '60s. View quote
Charles A. Reich
I don't think you can leap from that to the conclusion that the only war dead that that cross honors are the Christian war dead. I think that's an outrageous conclusion. View quote
Antonin Scalia
One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
In other words, given a choice between anarchism and anarchy, most anarchists would go for the anarchism ideology and subculture rather than take a dangerous leap into the unknown, into a world of stateless liberty. View quote
Bob Black
Each and everyone on Earth can make one small step, which will cumulatively result in a giant leap for mankind towards world peace. View quote
Newton Lee
Sometimes you have to take those first steps, take that leap of faith, and inspire God to catch you. View quote
Steve Maraboli
I just think it's really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don't necessarily take them really seriously - I don't even think a lot of really good films get seen. But I don't think that's what it's about. I mean, how amazing was Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream Especially as she was acting with herself most of the time. I don't understand how a performance like that can't win. I was so affected by that movie that I had to turn it off. I felt as if I was on drugs and my heart was about to leap out of my body. View quote
Liv Tyler
I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window. (Jeremy Irons)
And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He leapt upon his steed, and like the wind They speed them on; at first his giddy brain Swam like a chaos- mystery of the mind Which would guide its own workings, but in vain :. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it. View quote
David Attenborough
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling. View quote
J. J. Abrams
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap. View quote
Juvenal
Unlike the left, we do not trot out any far-fetched or unachievable promises. Our program is straightforward and clear – there should not be any homeless, unemployed or hungry. This is the minimal goal, while the maximum goal is to make a major leap forward. View quote
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked Islam for their own purposes. It's important not to fall into that trap and to try to respond with a metaphysical retaliation of some sort. View quote
Edward Said
If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go. View quote
Gabrielle Roth
It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody. View quote
Christian Slater
No revolution, no heresy is comfortable or easy. For it is a leap, it is a break in the smooth evolutionary curve, and a break is a wound, a pain. (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Magnolia is operatic in its ambition, a great, joyous leap into melodrama and coincidence, with ragged emotions, crimes and punishments, deathbed scenes, romantic dreams, generational turmoil and celestial intervention, all scored to insistent music. It is not a timid film. View quote
Roger Ebert
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead!' Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. View quote
John Dryden
This is the predicament of man. All souls descend a ladder form heaven to the world. Then the ladders are taken away. Once they are in this world, they are called upon from heaven to rise, to come back. It is a call that goes out again and again. Each soul seeks the ladder in order to ascend above; but the ladder cannot be found. Most people make no effort to ascend, claiming, how can one rise to heaven without a ladder? However, there are souls which resolve to leap upwards without a ladder. So they jump and fall down. They jump and fall down, until they stop. Wise people think that since no ladder exists, there must be another way. We must face the challenge and act. Be what it may, one must leap until God, in His mercy, makes exultation come about. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel