Cliffs Quotes

Cliffs Quote of the day

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

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?"

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.

As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

The way up is a staircase. The way down is a cliff.

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

You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

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.

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

I'm not a lemming about to run off the end of a cliff.

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding.

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films

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.

The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing.

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

I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.

Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

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

Watch out for cliffs on the left. Fatal spot again.

I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.