Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings

Research Database of Quotes

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Keywords

(Click a letter to view the keywords)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R
S
T U V W X Y Z

swinging

«I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.»
Author: Babe Ruth (Baseball Player) | About: Happiness | Keywords: bat, glove, sixteen, swinging
«Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.»
«In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage»
«My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.»
Author: Hank Aaron | Keywords: motto, slump, slumps, swinging
«A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'»
«Southern trees bear strange fruit,Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.»
«Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | About: Action | Keywords: afloat, at bottom, flail, flailing, regain, swinging
«A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air»
«I hear the far-off curfew sound, / Over some wide-watered shore, / Swinging slow with sullen roar.»
«I wasn't sure at first-I didn't want to run around in tights, swinging a sword.»

Pages: 1 2 Next »