Quotes about fall
fall shadow facts
There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is. Robert Rauschenberg
falling-in-love people plant
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do. Robert Plant
fall character piano
I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character. Sarah Zettel
falling-in-love thinking needs
I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when you fall in love with someone and sometimes it's when someone saves your life. Sarah Wayne Callies
fall winter autumn
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. Zhuangzi
fall airplane flying
I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom. Yves Rossy
fall men law
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other. William H. Seward
fall good-luck luck
How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us? William Dean Howells
fall cutting roots
But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free. Wendell Berry
fall writing rome
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. Walter Russell Mead
falling-in-love adventure fighting
Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is. Walter Mosley
fall hbo long
HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.
fall anxiety climbs
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. Walter Raleigh
fall tree likes
Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.
falling-in-love men might
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself. W. Somerset Maugham
falling-in-love heart men
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.
fall play important
The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
falling-in-love husband rate
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
fall dark night
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land! Vladimir Nabokov
fall struggle wings
His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.
fall evening-light transparent
Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep. Yoko Ono
fall sky always-there-for-me
All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.
falling-in-love love-is years
Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. Yakov Smirnoff
fall earthquakes inevitable-death
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead Yamamoto Tsunetomo
fall animal ostriches
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul. Yann Martel
fall way feels
There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.
fall two mind
We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences William Osler
fall twilight night
As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness. William O. Douglas
fall thinking who-i-am
I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think. William P. Young
fall ambition soar
They that soar too high, often fall hard. William Penn
fall farewell play
The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell. William Makepeace Thackeray
fall doubt wicked
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?
fall learning crystals
The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong. Robert Musil