Quotessence
Home / Topics / Cliffs Quotes

Cliffs Quotes

Browse 411 quotes about Cliffs.

Related topics

FallIfsWayEdgesThinkingKnowsPeopleMenWorldJumping Off A CliffFirstsMightJumpingWantGivingSaidSeaTryingJumping OffWholeEndsMindRunningWaterIdeasKidsLooksMountainWould BeYearsAirFalling OffGuyRiversRocksStillsTwoWaveBigsBreakCarCareFalling Off A CliffFeelsHomeNeedsShouldStandingWingsFalling In LoveFeetFeltFilmFiscal CliffKindLongMadeMotherRepublicanWhiteActionBelieveBookBuildingClimbingDoverEyeFoundGoneHandsKnowingLyingOceanReasonSawsSidesSoundStepsTurnsWellsWriting

Cliffs Quotes

“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."”

KnowsMenTryingKindHalfKnow HowActivityMountainVersionsBrandsTexasCowsMasculinityCliffsManlyColoradoCabinsPart TimeRappelling
Author:David Gordon Green
Create image

“As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened and dropping to the floor. Fog came unpinned like hair. On the beach cliffs, great colonies of datura - jimson weed - with their white trumpet flowers, looked like brass bands.”

WhiteHeardFlowerHairBandBirdDressesMovedBeachWeedFogCliffsDroppingFlocksTrumpetsColonyBrassBrass Bands
Book:A match to the heart
Create image

“Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.”

BlackNaturalMorningRocksRedHorseWake UpBlueAweLakesWakingYellowDozenLayersEvery MorningCliffsCathedralsWaterfallsAwe InspiringCreviceWaking Up Every MorningRainstormsAfter The RainRed And YellowSandstone
Book:Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Create image

“What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest.”

PeopleThinkingGivingHelpingHomeGovernmentGuyCan DoCasesHonestCarKeysCitizensVoteCliffsGood Guy
Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
Create image

“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”

IfsWritingLittlesPhilosophyCareReadingSexFictionNovelViolenceClothesNotesGuiltyDescriptionPlotAdvancementCliffsAdvancingFeastingReading Fiction
Author:George R. R. Martin
Create image

“I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.”

I CanBigsWaterMemoriesGreaterWindOceanWaveLandscapeRangeTiesValleysSaltFloridaCoastCliffsSpineHowlMaineLoomingGrizzliesSalt WaterYellowstoneEvergladesBig Sur
Author:Terry Tempest Williams
Create image

“God works in many ways His wonders to perform. But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road.”

IfsMenWayWould BeWonderBreakDivineMiracleDriversMechanicCliffsSkillful
Book:People or personnel: decentralizing and the mixed systems ; and, Like a conquered province : the moral ambiguity of America
Create image

“You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.”

IfsThinkingNeedsImportantBookForceWaitingRealizingPoetReaderImportanceEchoesPublishCliffsDropping
Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Create image

“The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.”

FormRocksThousandTenRiversLandscapeCliffsTerracePlateaus
Book:Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Create image

“For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You have a sense of what it is you must set out to do. But nothing will form yet. When you sit down to write or paint or form movement, it's like stepping over a cliff or into a dense fog. All you can do is trust that this impending masterpiece is going to somehow manifest itself as you work. But you do know that there is something specific ahead, and you feel the excitement of that.”

PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingFormBitsCan DoPiecesMovementPaintChaosExcitementManifestMasterpieceFogCliffsDenseBits And Pieces
Book:The Soul Tells a Story: Engaging Creativity with Spirituality in the Writing Life
Create image

“May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”

MayEndsDreamBeautifulNextWaitingWonderRocksStrangeWallRedFlowRiversStonesBlueAncientEndlessBarsDesertSunlightCliffsCanyonsChasmsPinnacleDomes
Author:Edward Abbey
Create image