#jumping

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. ↗

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#bottom #car #could #down #drove

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#call #came #charge #down #going

They arrived home again to a most peculiar sight. The small garden at the front of the Banana House had been transformed. A tidal wave of cushions, beanbags, quilts, hearth rugs, and sleeping bags appeared to have swept up the lawn and broken at the wall. From Indigo's window a multicolored rope of knotted bedsheets came snaking out and ended among the cushions. As Micheal and Caddy watched, a mattress emerged and fell to the ground, followed by a rain of pillows. "Indigo!" shouted Caddy, jumping out of the car. Indigo's and Rose's heads appeared in the window above. "It's all right, Caddy!" Indigo called cheerfully. "We've been doing it all the time you've been gone." "We keep finding more stuff to land on!" added Rose. "Look! ↗

— Hilary McKay

#jumping #kids #silly #family

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#festivals #getting #jumping #killed #people

We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athlete #bit #come #events #hurdles

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#boxing #breathing #jumping #me #much

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#cat #journalists #jumping #public #take

It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#bold #doing #enough #hard #into

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents. ↗