"The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises . . . the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment."

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Source : Interview in "The Detroit News", December 4, 1914.

Buster Keaton

#Dad Quotes #Fall Quotes #Cat Quotes

“Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.”
“Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.”

Source : "Review of Guest Speaker Dr Munir Butt". Yale Daily News, 1994.
“The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling, murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release.”

Source : "Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality". Book by Susan McClary, 1991.
“Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.”
“Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.”
“I hope to be making television shows and films, and creating content that captivates Latinos. I try not to think about it too much, though. I'm more focused in the present.”
“Nudity is for my boyfriend or my doctor.”

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