The Fall Quotes

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

The real test of our character is when the bottom falls out.

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

It's no shame to fall down, but it is a shame to just stay down.

Please don't let me fall.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

Let the rain falling on your face run into your eyes. Can you see the rainbow now through the stormy skies?

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

Once you fall in love... It's different.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again?

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

You are what you love, not who loves you.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

I could fall in love with a supernatural creature because I think it's hot having super powers and being a little bit of a badass.

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.

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.