Quotes with falling-off

Quotes 621 till 640 of 666.

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Allen Klein Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Bill Hicks Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?
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    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Philip Larkin Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Bayard Taylor With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Ben Folds With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Jean Paul Getty Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Caroline Knapp Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Lord George Byron Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Aldous Huxley Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Alan Watts You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Clarence Day You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • Richard Branson You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
    Richard Branson
    English business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Paxton You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Carol Burnett You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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