Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.
I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.
Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.
Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source of jazz. Naturally, improvisation and swing are a part of jazz, improvisation being the key.
You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings. . . there’s no way to tell what’s causing their attitude. - Mike
We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.
Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.
The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.
Just because somebody swings one way and I swing another way doesn't mean he's better than me or I'm better than him. . . Does my swing get hits? Yes.
People thought it was asinine for me to change my swing after I won the Masters by 12 shots. . . . Why would you want to change that? Well, I thought I could become better. If I play my best, I'm pretty tough to beat. I'd like to play my best more frequently, and that's the whole idea. That's why you make changes. I thought I could become more consistent.
She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity. " "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing. " "Don't even joke about that.
I'd have to swing by the house first to change into something more comfortable. ” “That's fine,” he said. “I'm all for you changing into something more comfortable. ” “I'll bet you are,” she said knowingly. “Now, don't start getting fresh,” he said, feigning offense. “I don't think we know each other well enough for that.
American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.
I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.
Swing your swing. I know, I did.