Cliffs Quotes - Page 14

You have no idea, especially in green screen, what movie you're doing. You really don't. And then, you see the movie and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm on a cliff right now! I'm having sex right now! I thought I was dancing."

Josh Brolin

Sex, Ideas, Dancing

"Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Talk SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2014.

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I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."

David Gordon Green

Men, Texas, Trying

Source: www.vulture.com

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If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

Mary Ruefle

Errors, Ideas, Path

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In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

Charles Kingsley

Christian, Book, Years

Charles Kingsley (1856). “Hypatia ... The second edition”, p.1

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Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Growth, Crystals, Architecture

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands”, p.150

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Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Strong, Moss, Enough Time

Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.169, A&C Black

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As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened and dropping to the floor. Fog came unpinned like hair. On the beach cliffs, great colonies of datura - jimson weed - with their white trumpet flowers, looked like brass bands.

Gretel Ehrlich

Weed, Beach, Flower

Gretel Ehrlich (1994). “A match to the heart”, Pantheon

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The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.

Wallace Thurman

Order, Gorges, Shrines

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Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.

Ben Bernanke

Cutting, Law, Important

"Highlights: Bernanke's Q&A testimony to House panel". Ben Bernanke's remarks during the House Committee on Financial Services hearing at Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., www.reuters.com. February 29, 2012.

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In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

Bill McKibben

Euro Crisis, Years, Care

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Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

Cathleen Schine

Fall, Flames, Letters

Cathleen Schine (2013). “The Love Letter”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.

John Woo

Simple, Years, Office

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Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

John Lennon

Music, Listening, Shadow

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I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

Robin Wasserman

Writing, Jumping, Way

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But surely "Argh" is the sound of a sort of strangulated scream.
"Aargh" is the sound of a stabbing, or a falling off a cliff.
"Arr" is, I think, the noise you're looking for. It's the noise pirates make when they don't have anything better to do. "Arr, Jim Lad" = Pirate noise. "Aargh, Jim Lad" = sound of pirate falling off a cliff.

Neil Gaiman

Fall, Thinking, Pirate

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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

Lisa Kleypas

Love Is, Jumping, Trying

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Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.

Jeannette Walls

Morning, Horse, Lakes

Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

Rick Yancey

Thinking, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Existential

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Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

Cindy Sheehan

Fiscal Cliff, Pentagon

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I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.

Keith Barry

Tv Shows, People, Scare

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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Oscar Wilde

Travel, Fall, Home

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What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Home, Thinking, Keys

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And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. 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

Sex, Philosophy, Reading

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Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

Seth Godin

Strategy, Routes, Incrementalism

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A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.

Bruce Barcott

Drama, Home, Silence

Praise for "Into the Silence" by Wade Davis, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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