Tripping Over Quotes

• Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Eye

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• Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

  Christian Wiman

  Garden, Religion, Backyards

  Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.147, Copper Canyon Press

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• As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

  Robert Breault

  Two, Feet, Over You

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• What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Details, Stories, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

  Robert Englund

  Feet, Hollywood, Tripping

  Source: houseofgeekery.com

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• Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
  Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
  Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
  A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!

  KRS-One

  Liars, Rap, Tired

  Song: Mortal Thought, Album: Return of the Boom Bap, 1993

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• Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

  Rachel Cohn

  Book, Eye, Hands

  Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.

  Amanda Stott

  Song, Etc, Tripping

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• I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

  Thomas Sadoski

  Running, Fall, Python

  Source: collider.com

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• When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

  Hulk Hogan

  Mistake, Wrestling, Feet

  "ESPN 'Hulk Hogan is still The Main Event'". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.thewrestlingtimes.com. October 12, 2011.

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• [When to have a facelift:] If you're tripping over your neck.

  Phyllis Diller

  Over You, Tripping, Necks

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• She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

  Jodi Picoult

  Forever, Hem, Littles

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.721, Simon and Schuster

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• You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Strong, Hate, Stupid

  "Theft of Swords". Book by Michael J. Sullivan, November 3, 2011.

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• There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.

  Slash

  Opposites, People, Drunk

  "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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• Once you accept that we're all imperfect it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

  Paloma Faith

  Mistake, Acceptance, Imperfection

  "Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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