Cliffs Quotes - Page 14

I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way.

Claude Monet

Trying, Different, Way

Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.

Peter York

Character, Gay, Keys

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If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

Mary Ruefle

Errors, Ideas, Path

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The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Heart, Men, Rivers

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

Ted Lange

Actors, Taught, Restraint

"Ted Lange sails past 'Love Boat'" by Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. March 26, 2003.

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Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.

Ally Carter

Military, Fall, Men

Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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, Parenthood, Hindsight

"Upset winner isn't horsing around" by Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.

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Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Growth, Crystals, Architecture

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands”, p.150

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Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.

H. P. Lovecraft

Wise, Dream, Hero

H.P. Lovecraft (2015). “The Complete Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales”, p.228, Hachette UK

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Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.

Walter Scott

Flower, Pride, Dark

Walter Scott (1821). “The Poetical Works: Lady of the lake”, p.13

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Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons, only less funny. You run off the cliff and just keep going—talking, listening to music, making plans, for years sometimes—except no announcer interrupts to say ‘Excuse me, collect call for Mr. Coyote’ to make you notice and make us laugh. You just wake up and fall.

Mark Slouka

Running, War, Fall

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...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

John Muir

Fall, Good Luck, Sky

John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.225, Library of America

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Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for a sequel or some cliff-hanger, that's not how I think of a satisfying story.

Rian Johnson

Wise, Thinking, Stories

Source: collider.com

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How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.

Aldo Leopold

House, Over You, Wisconsin

Aldo Leopold, J. Baird Callicott, Eric T. Freyfogle (1999). “For the health of the land: previously unpublished essays and other writings”, Island Pr

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I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Jeff VanderMeer

Jumping, People, Risk

Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

Ray Bradbury

Attitude, Men, Thinking

Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe — and now Detroit — is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell "Stop." You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it falls over a cliff.

Charles Krauthammer

Europe, Law, Detroit

"Detroit Ran Into The Inviolable Rule Of Economics". www.jewishworldreview.com. July 26, 2013.

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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

Ansel Adams

Spiritual, Fall, Light

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On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding.

Bob Dylan

Cat, Expression, Riding

Song: Spanish Harlem Incident, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

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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

Euro Crisis, Years, Care

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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

Tate Taylor

Eye, Giving, Movement

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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Oscar Wilde

Travel, Fall, Home

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And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

George R. R. Martin

Sex, Philosophy, Reading

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Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

John Lennon

Music, Listening, Shadow

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What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Home, Thinking, Keys

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