Jumping Off Quotes

• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Courage, Humor, Greatness

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.215, Melville House

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• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

  Luke Perry

  Kids, Thinking, Jumping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.

  Tori Amos

  Party, Mean, Eye

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• I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

  Lauren Oliver

  Letting Go, Jumping, Air

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• I have to dig from myself versus digging from something that I like. Digging from something you like is easy whereas from your inside, it's a totally different ballgame altogether. That's not a matter between picking red and blue, it's not like that. It's a decision, it's a choice and, like I've said in the past, it's like jumping off a cliff and hoping you survive the jump.

  Jlin

  Past, Jumping, Blue

  Source: thequietus.com

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• As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?

  Nancy Bird Walton

  Mother, Book, Jumping

  Interview with George Negus on "George Negus Tonight", March 8, 2004.

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• The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Christian, Stars, Children

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• Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

  Rachel Hoffman

  Jumping, Careers, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Jumping, People, Risk

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Jobs, Attitude

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Morning, Jumping, Yesterday

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.

  Channing Tatum

  Dream, Jumping, Flying

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• The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

  Cornelius Cardew

  Jumping, Arbitrary, Authority

  Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”

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• A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Jumping, Magic

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• What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

  Bill Vaughan

  Suicide, Nuts, Bridges

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• The further he raided, the closer he came to the other rooms. Those unused, cobwebbed chambers of her heart. Would he dare to venture there? She doubted. Jumping off a cliff was a flashy sort of courage, but a man would need true strength and valor to break through those padlocked doors. There were dark, uncharted spaces within her that had been built to house love, and even she was afraid to explore them. Terrified to learn just how vast and how achingly empty they truly were.

  Tessa Dare

  Love, Heart, Dark

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• I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just be an interesting way to tackle it. Just even the way that the spaghetti westerns tackled the history of the Old West, I thought it could be a neat thing to do that with World War II, but just as opposed to using cowboy iconography, using World War II iconography as kind of the jumping-off point.

  Quentin Tarantino

  War, Cowboy, Jumping

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• I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.

  Sue Grafton

  Clever, Smart, Book

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving.

  Denzel Whitaker

  Men, Cities, Jumping

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Jumping, Connections, Ladders

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• When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

  Eric Kripke

  Jumping, Giving, Stories

  "Timeless: Showrunners preview NBC time-travel series". Interview with Shirley Li, ew.com. September 29, 2016.

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• [ 1600 Penn] is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now being forced into this world as a jumping off point. But, in no way is it the crux of the series. It's simply an introduction to the world.

  Josh Gad

  Character, Jumping, Way

  "Josh Gad and Jason Winer Talk 1600 Penn, Creating the White House Family Comedy, Improvisation During Filming and Viewers’ Perception of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 8, 2013.

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