Leap Quotes

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.