Falling Quotes

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie

Fear, Between, Desire

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
Snoop Dogg

Love, Music, Two

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.
Ralph Lauren

Love, Big, Exciting

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.
Debra Winger

Love, Cause, Connect

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
Robert. L. Ehrlich

Education, Age, Time

From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.
Jerry Lewis

Time, Everything, Together

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.
Iris Murdoch

Love, Change, Marriage

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Patriotism, True, Military

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

Love, Best, Physical

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.
Jane Fonda

Love, Time, State

For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.
Sloane Crosley

Life, Forget, Person

The weight really started falling off, and I could see my muscles. It was awesome.
Jordin Sparks

Off, Awesome, Started

I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'
Jordin Sparks

Love, Expression, Bible

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?
Hugh Mackay

Violence, Games, Rise

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.
Eric Bana

Youth, Older, Couple

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
Miyamoto Musashi

Able, Timing, Rising

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
June Carter Cash

Love, Time, Morning

I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
Florence Welch

Saying, Old, Around

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.
Freeman Dyson

Time, Bad, Mean

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.
Alfre Woodard

Love, Picture, Process

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.
Carrie Fisher

Love, Words, Reading

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.
Bobby Darin

Made, Around, Another

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.
Amy Poehler

Life, Love, Time

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
John Green

Life, Love, Time

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.
Arthur Smith

Nose, Half, Large

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
George Byron

Words, Thought, Small

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
Bear Grylls

Hard, Find, While

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

Education, Down, Through

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
Jay London

Book, Hair, Loss

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.
Josh Radnor

Attention, Picture, News

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