Top 1200 Falling Off Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I said: 'I'm throwing in my job, and I'm going to write a book.' Everyone thought: 'She's off her trolley,' and it was quite crazy, really. I'm just lucky that it came off.

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him.

To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Sweat doesn't fall off you. The water just accumulates until it gets too big and agitated and falls off like a sphere of water. It then floats around until it hits something. It takes a lot of water to fall off. Usually it just hangs on, so you get a quick build-up of sweat when working out.

Id rather be seen the way I am now instead of falling over myself walking out of a club.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling.

I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everybody tries to become better off, nobody is better off. But when everybody tries to become better, everybody is better off.

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

I think falling in love with an older woman is not abnormal. It happens a lot in our society, but it's just that it is not accepted with open arms.

It took a little while to get used to falling asleep without laying down on a bed or having a pillow.

You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it. What am I gonna do?

The sunset looks beautiful over the projects... What a shame, it ain't the same where we stand at. If you look close, you can see the bricks chipped off. Sometimes niggas miss when they lick off.

This is our true tie," he whispered, his breath falling hotly onto my lips. "You're meant for me, and I will have you.

I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

Auditioning is a funny one. It's all about energy. If you walk into a room and the room feels off or the people feel off, that can set you off. If the room is very small. I know which casting directors I should go to, because the place is conducive to doing a good job and the people are conducive and I know the other ones aren't, in which case I send in a tape.

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

I tried snowboarding at 14, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I snowboarded every day off I had, every weekend I had off of school, every holiday we had off from school, and it became a huge part of my life, not just what I love to do, but really just kind of who I was.

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen said, "Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head!" Well... that's too bad... no more heads to cut.

It's called 'falling in love' for a reason: it does not have to be forced and cannot be planned. It just happens naturally, and if you're lucky, it takes you by surprise.

I look at people for their souls, and I can see myself falling in love with anyone after getting to know them and developing a relationship.

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.

[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.

While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.

More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

I honestly was supposed to always be a wrestler. I was never hired into any business as an announcer. That was just something I ended up falling into.