Tumbling Quotes

• I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

  Louise Bogan

  Two, Immortal

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

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• I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Trying, Speech

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.525

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• Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.

  John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

  Laughter, Military, Clouds

  In K. Rhys More Poems from the Forces (1943) "High Flight"

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• Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.

  Ian Anderson

  Horse, Sky, Weather

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• It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

  Svetlana Khorkina

  Grace, Elegance, Mechanic

  "Khorkina lashes judges as cheats", www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2004.

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• Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut!

  Russell Brand

  Dark, White, Labyrinth

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• Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.

  Salman Rushdie

  Moving, Castles, Shapes

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.543, Macmillan

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• See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin." --Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch

  David Cronenberg

  Betrayal, Lying, Lunch

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• It's much easier to become a hacker now. It was a private community before and you had to find your way in, like tumbling down a rabbit hole. Today, there are all-in-one desktops fully equipped with tools pre-built into the operating system, all related to hacking. They are all very powerful tools and free to download.

  Michael Demon Calce

  Powerful, Tumbling Down, Community

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• He kissed me, so gently at first that I melted. I pressed close against him as the kiss deepened, curling my arms around his neck and tumbling into pure sensation. The softness of his hair as I ran my fingers through it; his arms hands on my skin, caressing me. It felt so, so good. I'd been afraid that I'd never have this again--this sense of being so achingly alive that every nerve ending was on fire.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Kissing, Fire, Hair

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• While we lie tumbling in the hay.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Lying, Hay

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.

  Joanne Harris

  Summer, Wind, Rushing

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• The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

  Hirohito

  War, Victory, World

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• And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Girl, Orange, Tree

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Rocks, Wind, People

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• A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

  Jeremy Collier

  Men, Expression, Giving

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.

  Cassandra Clare

  Black, Trying, World

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• We have seen some of the greatest athletes fall because they have tried to take shortcuts. I'm not going to call any names but we talk about guys that was like at the top of their game that people just idolized. They looked in awe and all of a sudden you see them just come tumbling down because they want to take shortcuts. I think it's more rewarding when you do it the old fashioned way.

  Jerry Rice

  Fall, Athlete, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The miracle has passed me by; it has touched but not changed me; I still have the same name and I know I will probably bear it until the end of my days; I am no phoenix; resurrection is not for me; I have tried to fly but I am tumbling like a dazzled, awkward rooster back to earth, back behind the barbed wires.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Names, Phoenix, Miracle

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• Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Endurance, Surf, Patient

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood,
  Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud,
  Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Tumbling Down

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.246

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• Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Ideas, Profound

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• Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No. Sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dimensions in her head.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Girl, Crazy, Night

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• Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, People, Crumbling

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• Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Balance, Would Be

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