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1 " My muscles informed me they did not want to go through any more exercise today. So I suggest that maybe he should let me off this time. He laughed, and I'm pretty sure it was at me...not with me. " Why is that funny?" " Oh," he said, his smile dropping. " You were serious." " Of course I was! Look, I've technically been awake for two days. Why do we have to start this training now? Let me go to bed." I whined. " It's just one hour." " How do you feel right now?" " I hurt like hell." " You'll feel worse tomorrow." " So?" " So, better get a jump on it while you still feel...not as bad." " What kind of logic is that?" I retorted. "
2 " How do you feel right now?" " I hurt like hell." " You'll feel worse tomorrow." " So?" " So, better get a jump on this while you still feel...not as bad." " What kind of logic is that?" I retorted. "
3 " Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall "
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4 " Zen is a single step—the journey of one single step. You can call it the last step or the first step, it doesn’t matter. It is the first and it is the last, the alpha and the omega. The whole teaching of Zen consists of only one thing: how to take a jump into nothingness, how to come to the very end of your mind, which is the end of the world. "
― Osho , Zen: The Path of Paradox
5 " Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived. "
― Richelle E. Goodrich , Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
6 " Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord, but sometimes it's hard not to get a jump on it yourself. "
― Robin Brande , Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature
7 " It's a jump, Minuette, that's all it is. A jump out of this world, straight into my arms." Incredibly, she managed to smile. " You will catch me?" He pressed his lips against hers. " Always. "
8 " Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon Pass outside Los Angeles, the two sides shifted thirty feet. "
― John McPhee , Assembling California
9 " American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt. "
