Best fall & years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.”

Ifs Needs Feels Years Fall Five Crazy Position Seven Exploration Seven Years Discomfort Falling Asleep

Author:Karen O

“But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was not more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable.”

World Way Years Fall Found Logic Twenties Conclusion Secure Certainty Mathematical Uncertainty Reasoning Elephants Toil Constructs Fables Ontology Tortoises Great Math

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.”

Ifs Years Care Fall Pieces Don't Care I Don't Care Museums Falling Apart

Author:Sigmar Polke

“I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.”

Knows Way Years Hard Fall Sides Acting Five College Committed Quitting Five Years Dove I Quit Go Hard

Author:Sonja Sohn

“The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.”

Years Fall Sun Color Comfortable Skins My Favorite Warmth Breeze Coolness

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.”

Men Years Soul Stories Fall Black Development Six Ultimate Love Story My Soul Shooting Immortal Black Women Ultimate Love

Author:Blair Underwood

“I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.”

Years Turns Fall Car Listening Radio Reactions Turn-on Allergic Allergic Reactions

Author:Aimee Mann

“You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.”

Ifs Years Facts Fall Gains Advantage Empty Paid Twenties Errors Careful Crafts Recalls Coins Boast Elders Purses Resent Artisans Years Of Experience Redundancy

Author:Trevanian

“This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.”

Want Years Hands Running Fall Brother Losing Shoulders My Brother Coats Rough Times

Book:I'll Give You the Sun

Source: I'll Give You the Sun

“Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move.”

Knows Years Moving Fall Summer Spring Winter Autumn

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants.”

Giving Years Ends Fall Next Growing Flower Huge Bed Protect Seasons Lays Plant Winter Seeds Setting Settings Soil Gardening Decay Next Year October Head Start Planting Seeds

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.”

Needs Years Earth Fall Gold Believer Firm Shakes Miners Nuggets Year One Yukon

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“I feel stronger, but physically I feel like I'm falling apart. Every day I get a new pain or ache and think, 'Oh, that will be a hip replacement in a couple of years'.”

Thinking Feels Years Pain Fall Couple Stronger Hips Ache Falling Apart Replacements

Author:Yasmin Le Bon

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.”

Ifs Years Moments Faces Fall Saws Minutes Dying Wall Thousand Buddhist Caves Acid Persona Drunkenness Seventeen One Minute Seventeen Years Old Acid Trip

Author:Francesco Clemente

“I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.”

Years Made I Can Fall Opportunity Bats Cricket Because I Can Bowlers

Author:Muttiah Muralitharan

“Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.”

Years Song Fall Laughing Gold Stores Triumph Autumn Harvest Gems November Poems Summer To Fall Fall And Winter

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“The average woman falls in love seven times a year. Only six are with shoes.”

Years Fall Six Falling In Love Seven Shoes Average

Author:Kenneth Cole

“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.”

Source: The Age of Miracles

“Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel?”

World Years Fall Nations Heard Gun Shots Years Ago Ears Rounds Rebel Deaf Sympathetic Grabbing Deaf Ears

Author:Michelle Malkin

“Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an island on the Atlantic Ocean famous for its wild horses. I realize that the concept of wild horses probably stirs romantic notions in many of you, but this is because you have never met any wild horses in person. In person, they are like enormous hooved rats. They amble up to your camp site, and their attitude is: We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon.”

Years Persons Law Fall Realizing Attitude Mets Ocean Late Humorous Concepts Horse Notion Shoes Enormous Islands Camps Protected Site Rats Tents Camping Poop Wild Horses Atlantic Ocean

Author:Dave Barry

“In the two years of preparing material for shows, I realized there are elements that are definitely going to work live, but might not be the most exciting thing to put on a record. And there's stuff that I really love but it falls flat live.”

Years Two Shows Might Fall Stuff Records Materials Elements Exciting I Realized Two Years Flats Preparing Going To Work Exciting Things

Author:Girl Talk

“I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.”

Ifs Way Want Years Persons Stills I Can Kids Jobs Fall Three Can Do Falling Down

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.”

Years Light Turns Fall Wind Bells Old Year

Book:Quiet Dell: A Novel

Source: Quiet Dell: A Novel

“I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises.”

Years Guy Fall Easy Exercise Good Things Teeth Tendencies Brushes Old Guys

Author:Walter Mischel

“The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.”

Years Age Fall Sorrow Pressure Gentle Autumn Affliction Tenacity Detached Damp

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.”

Years Facts Artist Fall Experience Twenties Errors Crafts Boast Years Of Experience

Author:Trevanian

“Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons, only less funny. You run off the cliff and just keep going—talking, listening to music, making plans, for years sometimes—except no announcer interrupts to say ‘Excuse me, collect call for Mr. Coyote’ to make you notice and make us laugh. You just wake up and fall.”

Knows Years War Sometimes Running Fall Talking Laughing Plans Listening Wake Up Luck Excuse Keep Going Cartoon Listening To Music Cliffs Good Luck Excuse Me Coyotes Announcers Music Making

Author:Mark Slouka

“This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.”

Knows Years Kind Ends Self Seems Fall Interest Written Sadness Economic Strange Europe Died Greed Noble Experiments Communism Iron Curtains Self Interest Economic Systems Iron Curtain

Author:Bill Bryson

“I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.”

People Thinking Trying Years Wells Happens Age Fall Accepting Nice Gains Trade Aging Old Age Falling Apart Mellow

Author:Woody Allen

“Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.”

People Way Years Looks Fall Courses Fallen Plastic Surgery Falling Apart Ageing Plastic Surgery

Author:Nora Ephron

“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany

“I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.”

“As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.”

Years Book Ends Film Moving Fall Culture Creative Favors Print Keep Moving Creative Work Distributors

Book:Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Source: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

“Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.”

Way Years Stills Self Faces Fall Sleep Consciousness Watches Five Wife Twenties Deeper My Wife Five Years Unconscious Fascinated Twenty Five Sleepers

Author:David Bottoms

“It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.”

Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

“Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall into the earth and grow into flowers and radishes and beans." It is a miracle to me because I do not understand it. The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. Then why not accept God's miracles?”

Years Believe Doe Two Facts Use Earth Fall Grows Accepting Flower Years Ago Garden Miracle Plant Seeds Phrases Two Years Why Not Beans Two Years Ago Radishes

Author:Dorothy Day

“I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.”

People Ifs Years Stills Pain Fall Clear Car Stupid Hundred Medicine Miles Therapy Injury Amazed Pills Gallons Scams Sales Pitch

Author:Dean Edell

“We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.”

Thinking Years Together Lasts Fall Winning Strong Felt Sports Chance Last Year Championship Good Chance Previous Years

Author:Sterling Marlin

“How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.”

“The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.”

“I'm the LCL - the Last Center Left. I've been doing the same things for 13 years, but now they're flopping and falling, and the refs are falling for it, too.”

Years Lasts Fall Left Basketball Flopping Refs

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Should Years Seems Fall Answers Class Sea Twenties Legs Pockets Overboard

Author:Frederick Douglass

“A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.”

Men Years Age Dies Fall House Conditions Building Fortune Old Age Thirty Fifty Thirty Years Thirty Years Old

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.”

Ifs Writing Years Humans Heart Might Humanity Fall Force Perfect Consciousness Five Quiet Years Ago Insight Observation Five Years Mature Human Heart Better Than You Sentimentality

Author:Sarah Orne Jewett

“What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal, Lament those hardships which we cannot feel, His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please, But must I bellow too, who sit at ease? By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow, Free as the light and air some years ago. No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours, and excise our brains. Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear, No tributes laid on castles in the air.”

Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

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