Swings Quotes

It was always assumed that the classics were a good line of work for me because I had a decent voice and the right nose. But anybody who comes from an essentially cynical European society is going to be bewitched by the sheer enthusiasm of the New World. And in America, the articulate use of language is often regarded with suspicion. Especially in the West. Look at the president. He could talk like an educated New Englander if he chose to. Instead, he holds his hands like a man who swings an ax. George W. Bush understands, very astutely, that many of the people who are going to vote for him would regard him less highly if he knew how to put words together. He would no longer be one of them. In Europe, the tradition is one of oratory. But in America, a man`s man is never spendthrift with words. This, of course, is much more appealing in the movies than it is in politics.

Some people get into this business and they`re so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I`m going down swinging. I know that`s the way Heath Ledger feels and Ben Affleck feels the same way, too. We want to take the big swings.

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

When I played Mickey Mantle in 61* (2001) (TV). We were operating on a real high level. All the athletic training that we had to go through was something that you had to condition your body at a high level of athletic skill and we were playing baseball for three months. I was constantly getting injured, pulling muscles in my shoulder, muscles in my back, muscles in my groin, leg muscles. I was always having electric stimulation going at some point in my body. And the swings that we were taking were real. There`s just a high amount of injury when you`re playing a sport at that level.

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.

Vladimir hits the ball as hard as anyone in the league. He swings and hits bad pitches. He sees so many bad pitches, he expects a bad pitch every time. Barry is different because he will not swing at a bad pitch. But Guerrero hits bad pitches out of the stadium.

I knew we`d eventually bust out. You just never know when it`s going to happen. We were taking good swings before that, there was good energy on the bench. We just stayed aggressive and kept swinging.

We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can`t afford to give teams momentum.

Do you know what I like about this? We can actually get to the swings for Alyssa,

I feel pretty good, and we`ve still got a couple of weeks to get ready. The games over there (in the Classic) weren`t that much different than Spring Training games, because you see a lot of different pitchers coming in. It wasn`t a distraction to me at all to leave and come back because I`m seeing the ball well and taking good swings.

I`m just glad Pratt had the bat. It`s made the consistency of my swings a little better. My swings are not quite as long now.

I had checked swings at a couple of pitches early. I got myself behind,

Politics swings like a pendulum.

We have to take care of the games against Dallas. These games against Dallas are going to be big swings.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

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.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

He threw every pitch that he wanted for strikes. He threw it where he wanted, any count he wanted. As you could tell by some of their swings, he was on today.

My top students all swing differently, ... Adam Scott swings like Tiger Woods, and everybody thought I created a swing for Adam that is like Tiger`s. That`s not the case. When Adam came to me at age 19, that`s how he swung. We`ve just refined it since.

I remember taking a couple swings on the practice range and seeing Jim look at my dad and say, `Are you sure you want me to teach him?`

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