Hoop Quotes

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery. (Kit Williams)
I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames. View quote
Les Brown
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop. View quote
Derek Jacobi
The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control. View quote
Kit Williams
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. View quote
Thomas Lynch
[the] circular rhythmic movement of a dancer, the folds of whose dress are held out by means of a hoop. These folds preserve their exterior form, modified in a uniform manner through the rotary movement. In order the better to convey the notion of relief, I have attempted to model the essential portions in a manner almost sculptural. Light and ambiance act simultaneously on the forms in movement. View quote
Gino Severini
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. View quote
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream. View quote
Barbara Bush
Pirates! No true honest seamen, these, with their strange contrast of finery and ruffianism. Tarry breeks and seamen's shirts, yet silken sashes lapped their waists; no stockings to their legs, yet many had on silver-buckled shoes and heavy gold rings to their fingers. Great gems dangled from many a heavy gold hoop serving as an ear ring. Not an honest sailorman's knife among them, but costly Spanish and Italian daggers. Their gauds, their ferocious faces, their wild and blasphemous bearing stamped them with the mark of their red trade. View quote
Robert E. Howard
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop. View quote
Jack Levine
My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. (Jimmy Fallon)
The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. View quote
Douglas Adams
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. View quote
Black Elk
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. View quote
Black Elk
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown. View quote
Nelly Furtado
Oh, he's not like that," said Favonius. Jason flinched. "You can read my mind?" "I don't need to." Favonius tossed his bronze hoop in the air. "has the wrong impression of Cupid... until they meet him. View quote
Rick Riordan
Face it, Nat, this is one tiger who will never be jumping through your flaming hoop. View quote
Kresley Cole
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well. View quote
Art Linkletter
She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death. View quote
Kit Williams
My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out there in the rain. We didn't always have a gym to go to. View quote
Kevin Love
For most of my films, I've had to go out and start shooting before I could get the rest of the funding. That was the case with 'Hoop Dreams,' 'Stevie' and 'The Interrupters:' We started them quietly out of Kartemquin Films, only really going to funders once we had something to show and a firm idea of what the film might be. (Steve James)
My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing. View quote
Tyson Chandler
Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way. View quote
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is. View quote
Trent Reznor
Damn everything but the circus!... The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions. View quote
E. E. Cummings