Quotes About Cliff

She actually said with an emotion that she seldom let appear, Let me come with you, and he laughed. He meant yes or no - either perhaps. But it was not his meaning - it was the odd chuckle he gave, as if he had said, Throw yourself over the cliff if you like, I don't care. He turned on her cheek the heat of love, its horror, its cruelty, its unscrupulosity. It scorched her...

You're a dark, dangerous storm, Nathan," She tilted her head back, her glacial blue eyes arresting, even in the darkness of the club. "If i'm not carful I'm going to leap off a cliff with you.

Cliff, I'm completely exhausted by your blackness and I mean that in the nicest way possible. Nobody cares!

But Mrs. Joan Murphy, the subject, was not making Conklin's job any easier. She was understandably distraught, traumatized, and possibly a bit squirrelly. As a result, she'd taken the interview straight off road, through the deep woods, and directly over a cliff.

Pet Girl's address indicated that her apartment was in the picturesque and cheapest part of the former barracks, a long walk from where we stood. And what got to me instantly was that Norma Johnson's home was within viewing distance of Sea Cliff, where she'd gone to the Burke School—and where she'd been disgraced.

But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.

Tending a cliff-hanging Grand Hotel In a country ravaged by civil war. My heart as its only bellhop. My brain as its Chinese cook.

His tan rivaled George Hamilton's and his straight white teeth were so bright, she was sure he could stand on a cliff during a storm as a beacon to guide ships at sea.

Well hell, glad to be of service to our community," Orkett said and smiled at Eve. "Is it true a crooked deputy shot you, threw you off a cliff, and you climbed back out and shot him?

Love is a cliff, A clear, cold curve of stone, mottled by stars, Smirched by the morning, carved by the dark sea Till stars and dawn and waves can slash no more, Till the rock's heart is found and shaped again.

Riley had been in the interrogation room for six hours. For most people, this would have been a terrible hardship. Even a few weeks ago, Riley herself would have seen it as a nightmare. Now she just thought it was a nice place to sit down and take a rest. After all, she wasn't climbing down a rope into a dark cavern or getting pushed over a cliff, tied up in a car.

The Fool, the Zero card, dressed in motley, dazzled face to the sky, foot about to come off the cliff. Pierrot. It wasn't Michael at all. It was her. You fool...And which one was he? The Magician? She'd thought he was. She'd thought he had it all lined up. The world spinning on his little finger. Or else the Hermit with his lantern, looking for the true world. But no, here he was. The twelfth card. The Hanged Man. Lashed upside down to his cross tree. Unable to go backward or forward

It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.

Everybody knows that Coach Cliff is a great guy - on and off the court, he's great.

Below him, the woolly dog raged like the ocean at the base of a cliff.

The end will arrive very abruptly. Our experience will not be that of slowly running out of gas Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it will be more like driving off a cliff.

Above me, far out from the cliff, a wide-winged Thomas Hawk circles above the lagoon on rising thermals and scans the shifting bluekelp beds with its infrared vision, seeking out harp seals or torpids. Nature is stupid, I think and sit in the soft grass.

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.

two years into Tiberius's reign, the Senate had ordered all astrologers out of Italy. Particularly prominent ones risked being thrown off a cliff.

she counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the cliff to cheer him up.

Here we say that life is a cliff, and you must never turn around and look back when you're climbing.

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender...