Cliffs Quotes - Page 15

• Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Fiscal Cliff, Pentagon

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• Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

  Rick Yancey

  Thinking, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Existential

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• Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.

  Jeannette Walls

  Morning, Horse, Lakes

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love Is, Jumping, Trying

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• I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

  Robin Wasserman

  Writing, Jumping, Way

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• Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

  Seth Godin

  Strategy, Routes, Incrementalism

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• A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.

  Bruce Barcott

  Drama, Home, Silence

  Praise for "Into the Silence" by Wade Davis, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• 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, Window

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

  Cathleen Schine

  Fall, Flames, Letters

  Cathleen Schine (2013). “The Love Letter”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.

  John Woo

  Simple, Years, Office

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• 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, Republican, Mark

  "What's That Smell?". www.weeklystandard.com. October 23, 2006.

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• I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.

  Keith Barry

  Tv Shows, People, Scare

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• The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Empowering, Forever, Finals

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• O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Blow, Echoes

  1850 The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

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• But surely "Argh" is the sound of a sort of strangulated scream.
  "Aargh" is the sound of a stabbing, or a falling off a cliff.
  "Arr" is, I think, the noise you're looking for. It's the noise pirates make when they don't have anything better to do. "Arr, Jim Lad" = Pirate noise. "Aargh, Jim Lad" = sound of pirate falling off a cliff.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fall, Thinking, Pirate

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• Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Hope, Crazy

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 22

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• ...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Simple, Air

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• Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Worry, Sides

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• 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, Firsts

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• I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

  Carla Gugino

  Games, People, Together

  "Carla Gugino Exclusive Interview ELEKTRA LUXX; Updates on SUCKER PUNCH and NEW YEAR’S EVE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 7, 2011.

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• The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

  Charles Bukowski

  Twelve, Finals, World

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• Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

  Ron Fournier

  Self, Class, Roots

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• 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, Trough, Bailouts

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• The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

  Salman Rushdie

  Beautiful, Powerful, Feet

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• Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

  Ray Bradbury

  Knowing, Acting

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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