Falling Down Quotes - Page 13

• if they make me watch that movie one more time, I will fall down on my knees and beg for mercy

  Wendy Mass

  Fall, Watches, Knees

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• I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down. "Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave." "Scave." Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny.

  Emma Donoghue

  Fall, Thinking, Laughing

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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• I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Clouds, Poison

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• Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Fall, Numbers, Work Out

  "Sheryl Sandberg Is Half Right" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.

  Celine Dion

  Fall, Chairs

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• The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

  Jay Leno

  Fall, Wine, Beer

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• If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin - will it match my dress? That's when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.

  Kris Carr

  Running, Fall, Blue

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

  Paul Feig

  Pain, Fall, Agony

  "Crybabies for Bolton" by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2005.

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• The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt.

  Chris Pratt

  Hurt, Pain, Fall

  "Parks and Recreation's Chris Pratt on the Hilarious Third Season and the Surprise of Rob Lowe". Interview with Christopher Rosen, movieline.com. January 26, 2011.

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• A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Fall, Pride

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Baby, Real

  "The Other Side". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. December 09, 1993.

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• February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.

  Boris Pasternak

  Spring, Fall, Sadness

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• Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Fall, Kids, Thinking

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• Fall down again, Bella?' No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fall, Faces, Jacob Black

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• If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!

  Louise Rennison

  Running, Fall, Legs

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• Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wall, Fall, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.243, Ohio State University Press

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• Because people learn from their mistakes, Danger. Pain and failure are a natural part of life. It's kind of like a parent who watches their child fall down while learning to walk. Instead of coddling the child, you set them back on their feet and let them try again. They have to stumble before they can run. (Alexion) Do you really believe that we need to have our hearts ripped out? (Danger) A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Running, Pain

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• The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Rain, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

  Maya Angelou

  Fall, Men, Knees

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.135, Random House

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• You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.

  Nora Roberts

  Relationship, Fall, Men

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• If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Fall, Water, May

  Donna Jo Napoli (2012). “Bound”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• When everything else falls down around us, just knowing that there's another person who will miss us when we're gone is enough to see us through our darkest moments.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Knowing, Missing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.294, Macmillan

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• Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Past, Men

  "Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, transl. in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 45, 1843.

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• If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Fall, Mean, Russia

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• You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

  Christopher Walken

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Christopher Walken Offered Natalie Wood Death Theory in Past Interview" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2011.

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