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“There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff.”

Guy Five Ears Exciting Corners Boxing Seconds Bells Cliffs Other Guys Whispering Trainers Looking Down Mouthpiece

Author:George Foreman

“For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.”

World Needs Believe Kind Political Order Politics Hair Goes On Edges Drivers Vehicle Cliffs Steers Need A Change

Book:Timebends: A Life

Source: Timebends: A Life

“My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.”

Said Wanted Film Death Father Directors Shots Makers Backwards Cliffs Legendary Framing

Author:A. A. Gill

“If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.”

People Ifs Fall Disease Fence Cliffs Falling Off Ambulance Falling Off A Cliff

Author:Denis Parsons Burkitt

“I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.”

Giving Littles Country Whole Feelings Light Night House Views Cities Five Flower Ocean Spring Warm Every Night Fog San Francisco Horns Cliffs Protective Creeps Dusk Spring Flowers

Author:Irene Dunne

“People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?”

People Want Done Might Cliffs Jimmy

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.”

Hands Bigs Left Quality Bigger Profit British Spending Expensive Programming Cliffs Downsizing Jumping Off A Cliff

Author:Lee Child

“Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!”

“I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.”

Years Firsts Book Past Mountain Shadow Towns Cliffs Utah

Author:Gordon Gee

“The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.”

Feelings Action Film Bike Jumping Cliffs Adrenaline Rims Pacs

Author:Idris Elba

“Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.”

Giving Two Ends Kids Feet Fronts Civilization Hundred Yards Cliffs Dwelling Referring Freeways Raising Kids

Author:Barbara Kingsolver