One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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 blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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.
The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.
You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson. )
Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.
When your car is about to go off a cliff, it’s a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action—look out the window and steer or use the brake until you’re back on course.
Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.
I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature. "
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.
You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch on the edge of a cliff and going forward seems impossible, not for a lack of will, but a lack of space. The possibility of another day stands in defiance of the laws of physics. And you can't go back. So you want to fall, let go, give up, but you can't. And every breath you take reminds you of that fact. So it goes.
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact. . . These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general. . . On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background.
In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these days. " I flushed and turned my eyes straight ahead, looking after the dark shadow that I could no longer see. I could imagine what he was hearing in Alice's thoughts now. Near-drowings, stalking vampires, werewolf friends. . . "Hm," Edward said curtly, and the casual tone of his voice was gone.
Sometimes you get into a situation and realize that there is so much more to explore there and ask, why are we jumping off the cliff quite yet?
A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
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
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get. . . I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.
An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
