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.

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

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?"

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

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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