Cliffs Quotes - Page 17

• 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, Recognise, Edges

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• Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

  Julian Baggini

  Europe, Differences, Mind

  "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• 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

  Philosophy, Reading, Advancement

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• Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up, Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Stars

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Fall, Eye, Forever

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jul 24, 2011

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• A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

  Robert Jordan

  Fall, Men, Worst Enemy

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.250, Macmillan

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• Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

  Ted Dekker

  Running, Pain, Fall

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

  Jeff Lindsay

  Heart, Pushing It, Tongue

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

  John Green

  Rocks, Sea, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.170, Penguin UK

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• They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grins at me. "And when I say you and Sean Kendrick, I mean you and Sean Kendrick. And by burning, I mean burning.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mean, Burning, Sean

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.310, Scholastic UK

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• When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

  Jason Newsted

  Justice, Bass, Signatures

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!' Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.

  James Patterson

  Love You, Home, House

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• Kazuhiko could have taken his gun and aimed it at the person behind them. But Sakura wouldn't want that. What she wanted was to leave this world quietly before they got sucked into this horrible massacre. Nothing was more important to him than her. There was no room for compromise. If this were what her trembling soul wanted, then he would follow her. Had he been more eloquent he might have described his feelings as something like, "I'm going to die for her honor." Their two bodies danced in the air beyond the cliff, their hands still clasped together, the black sea under them.

  Koushun Takami

  Taken, Gun, Two

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• My name is Cassie Palmer and I’ve cheated death more times than anyone has a right to expect. In the last two months, I’ve been shot, stabbed, beaten and blown up a few dozen times, and that doesn’t count all the magical ways I’ve almost been killed. I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first.

  Karen Chance

  Names, Two, Long

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt The Moon: Cassie Palmer”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Home, Wings, Suffering

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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