Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Jones

Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.

Chuck Klosterman

The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.

Christopher Walken

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 Marlowe

O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!

Christopher Marlowe

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Christopher Marlowe

All live to die, and rise to fall.

Christopher Moore

Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.

Christopher Moore

Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.

Annie Proulx

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

Ansel Adams

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

Anne Bradstreet

It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.

Anne Bronte

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.

Andrew Carnegie

Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.

Amy Bloom

To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.

Amy Carmichael

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.

Aly Michalka

I'd rather be the half of us, the least of you, the best of me; and I will be - I'll be your prince, I'll be your saint, I will go crashing through fences in your name; I will, I swear - I'll be someone to fall back on. I'll be the one who waits, and for as long as you let me, I will be the one you need - I'll be someone to fall back on.

Ally Condie

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

Anne Tyler

I'm falling into disrepair

Anna Kendrick

This isnt the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love, a lot. Major in philosophy, because theres no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again, because nothings permanent.

Angela Kinsey

I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable.

Amy Hempel

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

Anne Rice

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

Anne Rice

And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

Anne Rice

Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.

Anita Diament

It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.

Andrew Stanton

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

Andrew Solomon

There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.

Clay Aiken

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

Clayton Christensen

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.

Daniel Johns

Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.

Daniel Keyes

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

Czeslaw Milosz

The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.

D. H. Lawrence

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.