Leapt Quotes
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Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
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More Leapt Quotes
I leapt at the tape like a man taking his last spring to save himself from the chasm that threatens to engulf him.
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister— 1955 Of the end of his record-breaking run. First Four Minutes.
My mother groaned! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
william blake— 1794 Songs of Experience,'Infant Sorrow'.
John Clellon Holmes?and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said,'You know, this is really a beat generation'and he leapt up and said,'That's it, that's right!'
Jack (John) Kerouac— 1959 Interview in Playboy, Jun.
And Thought leapt out to wed withThought EreThought could wed itself with Speech.
Tennyson— 1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 23, l.15-16.
John Clellon Holmes ... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!'
jack kerouac— "The Origins of the Beat Generation" in Playboy (June 1959), explaining the origins of the term the "Beat Generation".
He talked to her endlessly about his love of horizontals: how they, the great levels of sky and land in Lincolnshire, meant to him the eternality of the will, just as the bowed Norman arches of the church, repeating themselves, meant the dogged leaping forward of the persistent human soul, on and on, nobody knows where; in contradiction to the perpendicular lines and to the Gothic arch, which, he said, leapt up at heaven and touched the ecstasy and lost itself in the divine.
d. h. lawrence— Sons and Lovers (1913)
And the cold marble leapt to life a god.
henry hart milman— The Belvedere Apollo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
osbert sitwell— Left Hand, Right Hand!, Introduction (1945)
The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years...we've leapt ahead in all material terms, but the Muslim world would say we have fallen down in all spiritual and moral terms. We have to accept our share of the blame and they have to accept theirs.
norman tebbit— [4]
And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
— H. H. Milman, The Belvedere Apollo.
And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought, Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
— Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Part XXIII, Stanza 4.
