- Nov 07, 2020
Falling Quotes
On things that drift, drop, and pull us in.
This falling quotes collection ranges from the literal, like snowfall and a stray lock of hair, to the more figurative sense of falling into someone else's story. It also touches on the frustration of trying to capture ideas honestly on the page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.
- Sky
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sky isn't falling.
- Falling In Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sky isn't falling. We're not going to have more meteors hit because of sequestration.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
- First Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020