Swings Quotes

It’s very easy to make poor choices and have bad swings every now and then.

Politics is a pendulum that swings constantly. It’s really hard to say what’s going to happen in four years or in two years or in one year.

My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.

Depictions of race have changed so much since, like, the ’50s, where white people just played every race. But the pendulum swings both ways: I’m Filipino-American. If I had to wait for a Filipino role to come out to get work, I couldn’t eat. There are barely any roles out there.

When I ran a small IT services business in the 1990s, it had strong recurring revenues – yet I couldn’t accurately forecast cash flow for even the next few quarters. Small changes in the customer base or losing/hiring a few key employees could create massive swings in cash flow.

The thing that makes us root for Spider-Man as he swings across the city is that he’s either having the time of his life or worrying about whether he’ll be able to get a good grade on that English paper or whether or not he’s going to make it home in time for Aunt May to make his dinner.

If I keep taking my good swings, swing at the right pitches, good things will happen.

I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I’ve had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it’s a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.

What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.

We have got so caught up in an insular world that swings between our phones, our computers and our heads that we have forgotten to look out of the window, and say, ‘Hey! It’s raining.’

Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It’s like when the Internet bubble crashed.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it’s now more commonly called, is that it’s about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one’s a depressive. The point is, one’s a manic-depressive.

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.

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 question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I’m like a gymnast whose muscles get too stretched. I’ve got better at it, but I have a lot of emotional energy.

I know when I’ve been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It’s not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

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

That’s football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn’t.

‘Golf Digest‘ had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo’s swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.

Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I’ve only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell‘s soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me – it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, ‘I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.’

‘American Music‘ is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.

You look at guys with significant Alzheimer‘s and dementia and the mood swings and the suicides that unfortunately NFL players have been faced with. And depression. Lou Gehrig’s disease. These are all things that have kind of been linked to the brain damage from football.

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

My brain acts bizarrely and I keep having major mood swings.

Nobody ever dared with Frank, because he had such mood swings, and you never knew how he was going to react. But I could tell the minute I saw him that he was going to be in my corner.

I think when you take the big swings – and I’ve done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work – those are always the things that break through.

When you’re going into a game, you’re not expected to hit a home run every game. You’re just doing everything proper with proper swings.

The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn’t have to get caught in that.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That’s really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.

Before marriage, I was a very shy person with mood swings. But, now I can balance that and have become a better and stronger person.

I found that if I don’t paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it’s because I haven‘t painted.

I’m a Scorpio. I have different mood swings.

I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It’s swings and roundabouts.

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

I think it’s important for History to keep experimenting with their shows. The more documentary-driven, the returning series, are the bottom of the iceberg under the ocean that keeps it moving, and then it’s important to take those swings and see if we can ignite a spark with new audiences.

When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can’t hit it.

I would love to see more swings in areas that we haven’t explored. I can’t necessarily tell you what that is – I think you know it when you see it – but I think we’ve had a lot of the same-themed shows in broadcast, but those shows are still performing.

When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character’s background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour… I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don’t know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.

The perfect date is real simple. I wanna just spend a nice casual day walking in the park, playing on the swings… throwing bread crumbs to the ducks, really just chilling and getting to know each other and connecting with the real woman.

The beautiful thing about ‘The Strain Trilogy‘ is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it’s swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you make a great record, and it clicks with people. And other times it passes them by; there’s nothing you can do. It’s still the same record.

Tall pitchers create leverage and angle, often inducing more groundballs and sometimes swings and misses.

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It’s perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.