Fell Quotes - page 2

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks. (Eydie Gorme)
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land. View quote
Kit Williams
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. View quote
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. View quote
Victoria Jackson
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground? View quote
Tom Clancy
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness. View quote
George Eliot
He had a sense that the old man meant to be good-natured and neighbourly but the kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched--he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him. View quote
George Eliot
Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind. View quote
Ayn Rand
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing. (Thomas Hardy)
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man. View quote
Francis Parkman
I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt. View quote
Liza Minnelli
I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb..." he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan. View quote
Terry Jones
If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose. View quote
Robert Jordan
And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent. View quote
Eva Mendes
This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs. (Donald Rumsfeld)
I was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list. View quote
Keith Richards
I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk. View quote
Emil Cioran
I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me, and I didn't hear a thing. View quote
Steven Wright
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics. View quote
Leonard Susskind