Falling Quotes

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason.

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.