Cliffs Quotes

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.

If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?

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.

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

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

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

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)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

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.

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

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

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

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

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

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.

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.

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

The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.

When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

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

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

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.

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

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.

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

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.

When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of the few things that gives me kind of a deep, overwhelming, irrational fear where it affects my physiology.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grins at me. "And when I say you and Sean Kendrick, I mean you and Sean Kendrick. And by burning, I mean burning.

It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.

I don't see the point in apologizing to someone who remains angry enough to throw me off a cliff...unless we are standing by a cliff.

Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.