Fall Quotes

• The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • Sometimes
  • Iron
  • Scar

• When you start a political party, you are creating space for yourself. So many people were shocked when they realized that I was serious and had no interest in occupying any political position, so they started to fall out one by one.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Political
  • Interest

• I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • World
  • Children
  • Feelings

• 'A girl can’t control who will and who won’t fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully… awkward.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Girl
  • Control
  • Fall

• If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Time
  • Black
  • Space

• I try to be a partygoer. But at some point I don't know why I'm doing it and fall back. I've been using repression, the struggle between behaving as a social animal. You're seeking to be honest with your free will, less conflict. I think that's an important subject with me. That's who I am, how I was brought up. I think I use that a lot. I mistrust everything I think. Things you think you can trust, believe in, or hang on to, changes. That's the essence of life.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Future
  • Past
  • Fall

• Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Trouble

• I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Beginning

• If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Life
  • Bible
  • Ifs

• I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

  

  Lee Ryan Blue
  • Up
  • Time
  • Dying

• You learn pretty quickly: if you fall in love with your edit, you're bound to be heartbroken because it will all be re-cut.

  

  John Slattery
  • Pretty
  • Fall

• I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

  

  Andrew Wyeth
  • Fall
  • Winter

• I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

  

  Ashley Rickards
  • Fall

• YouTube's a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Interesting
  • Funny
  • Choices

• When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Sports

• Utilities fall in love with their assets, and that's a danger we need to avoid.

  

  Lynn Good
  • 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.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Should
  • Assuming
  • Sexuality

• The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Fall
  • Human Condition
  • Human Reason

• Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • People
  • Country
  • Fall

• The first bombs looked like livid shooting stars. Then, as they began their shrieking fall, the bomb trails converged. God had not shown mercy, the British possessed none and Copenhagen must suffer.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • God
  • Fall
  • Mercy

• We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Language

• I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!

  

  Leo Kottke
  • Fall

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