Cliffs famous quotes

But don’t let them talk you into anything you don’t feel comfortable with.” “They’re my friends.” “So what?” He shrugged. “If your friends walked off a cliff, would you do it too?” “Why would they walk off a cliff?” I asked in alarm. “Is someone having problems at home?
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Home #Cliffs #Alarms

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
-- Annie Dillard

#Wings #Way #Cliffs

Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that
-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Heart #Dark #Cliffs

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"
-- Bill McKibben

#Years #Care #Cliffs

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
-- Bill Walton

#Men #Cliffs #He Man

You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.
-- Celph Titled

#Cliffs #Encyclopedia

When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of the few things that gives me kind of a deep, overwhelming, irrational fear where it affects my physiology.
-- Chris Hadfield

#Giving #Irrational Fear #Cliffs

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)
-- Christopher Paolini

#Knowing #Water #Cliffs

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.
-- Cindy Sheehan

#Cliffs #Fiscal Cliff #Pentagon

But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Sea #Cliffs

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Lying #Cliffs #Steps

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.
-- Denis Hayes

#Civilization #Environmental #Cliffs

Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Strong #Lasts #Cliffs

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them
-- Frank Herbert

#People #Gathering #Cliffs

There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Educational #Cliffs #Walking

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.
-- George Galloway

#Cliffs #Blair #Bottom

Hills tell old stories.  Cliffs are poets with harps
-- George MacKay

#Cliffs #Stories #Hills

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
-- George Orwell

#Cliffs #Young #Solve

Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
-- Harold Bloom

#Responsibility #Political #Cliffs

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom
-- Hayley Williams

#Fall #Cliffs #Realizing

When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Blow #Car #Cliffs

The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.
-- Idris Elba

#Jumping #Feelings #Cliffs

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.
-- Jeff Lindsay

#Heart #Tongue #Cliffs

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.
-- Jim DeMint

#California #Cliffs #Trough

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.
-- Jonathan Ames

#Fall #Cliffs #Recognise

You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.
-- Joyelle McSweeney

#White #Cliffs #Coastline

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.
-- Kami Garcia

#Cliffs #Bigger #Fallen

Watch out for cliffs on the left.  Fatal spot again.
-- Karl Meltzer

#Watches #Cliffs #Spots

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
-- Lee Child

#Hands #Quality #Cliffs

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
-- Marcus Aurelius

#Inspirational #Water #Cliffs

Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.
-- Maria Semple

#Care #Cliffs #Bigger

July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
-- Markus Zusak

#July #Cliffs #Rafters

Do you like foreign films?” “With subtitles?” “Yes.” “I hate those types of films.” “Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because - “ “No happy endings.
-- Matthew Quick

#Hate #Cliffs #Happy Endings

Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.
-- Maya Banks

#Cliffs #Hops #Plunge

There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.
-- Michelle Paver

#Choices #Cliffs #Said

And turns out, it's not Republicans throwing granny off a cliff... It's the Fed!?
-- Neil Cavuto

#Cliffs #Republican #Feds

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
-- Patrick Warburton

#Jumping #Risk #Cliffs

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
-- Ray Bradbury

#Balance #Fiction #Cliffs

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
-- Ray Bradbury

#Knowing #Acting #Cliffs

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Business #Airplane #Cliffs

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.
-- Richard Eyre

#Thinking #World #Cliffs

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Car #Cliffs #Like You

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.
-- Rumi

#Today #Cliffs

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.
-- Ruth Park

#Risk #Cliffs #May

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.
-- Sam Lipsyte

#Cliffs #Cocaine #Rappelling

Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.
-- Shannon Hale

#Weed #Fall #Cliffs

The way up is a staircase. The way down is a cliff.
-- Tablo

#Way #Cliffs #Staircases

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
-- Ted Lange

#Taught #Actors #Cliffs

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
-- Ted Yoho

#Names #Cliffs #Parenthood

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Knowing #Land #Cliffs

Through what I have witnessed and documented, with proper interventions you can break those cycles. When I made the first film on this subject, 'Paper Tigers,' kids were going off the cliff. But then there was intervention, and they won't go off the cliff.
-- James Redford

#Kids #Paper #Cliffs

I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.
-- Kate Gosselin

#Stress #Next #Cliffs

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!
-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Lemmings #Cliffs #Republican

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.
-- George MacKay

#Stories #Cliffs #Hills

I'm not a lemming about to run off the end of a cliff.
-- Glenn Roeder

#Running #Lemmings #Cliffs