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Quotes About Tumble

Oop—I is tripped.
~ Walt Kelly
I wish the dryer were running, because man, I could use a good...tumble dry."-Eve Rosser
~ Rachel Caine
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.
~ Anna Godbersen, Envy
I am so clumsy! Like I fall off of bicycles.
~ Leigh Bardugo
Amid the tumble of his thoughts the now hesitant raindrops tapped at the windows like a blind man's cane
~ William Peter Blatty
as if dropped from a great height falling
~ Alice Oswald
The two of them went down in a heap, with not even a turkey to break their fall.
~ Eoin Colfer
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
~ Ambrose Bierce
In the beginning was the light and light was with life and the light was life and the earth quickened, and we came out of the ground to yearn forever and never reach the light but to tumble through generations, our skins afire with this lust for the light and we go toward the light or we go toward nothing and we become nothing. That is all.
~ Amy Goodman
Mr. Barbecue-Smith was tossed to the floor.
~ Aldous Huxley
Memories cartwheel out of her head & tumble across the floor.
~ Anthony Doerr
What do you want to do with me? she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble. He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all. By drugging me? (Molly and Arch)
~ Frank Beddor
She took a bad tumble. Those are some nasty bruises she's carrying, the maid said with a sad shake of the head. Aye, Cullen agreed, his eyes traveling over lovely, milky white skin, interrupted by several black bruises. She looks like a cow. Mildrede turned a horrified gaze on him at the comment, but he was more concerned by the choked sound that came from his bride. He really hadn't meant it as an insult, but it seemed the women were taking it so. I just meant the coloring, Cullen muttered
~ Lynsay Sands
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
~ John Lahr
I am a fool, Trichy, I do confess it; and am not a bit clever; but don't scold me; you see how humble I am; not only humble but umble, which I look upon to be the comparative, or, indeed, superlative degree. Or perhaps there are four degrees; humble, umble, stumble, tumble; and then, when one is absolutely in the dirt at their feet, perhaps these big people won't wish one to stoop any further.
~ Anthony Trollope
but don't scold me; you see how humble I am; not only humble but umble, which I look upon to be the comparative, or, indeed, superlative degree. Or perhaps there are four degrees; humble, umble, stumble, tumble; and then, when one is absolutely in the dirt at their feet, perhaps these big people won't wish one to stoop any further.
~ Anthony Trollope
The launderette, you say? Hmm. Delightful as a career manning the tumble dryers sounds, I think I'll stick with songwriting for a bit longer.
~ Elton John
If growth did not pick up enough to boost consumer and business confidence, the economy might tumble into a new recession.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I'm a codebreaker, aren't I?" Squirrelflight winked at her, then turned to face Bramblestar as he leaped down the rock tumble.
~ Erin Hunter
I went down like a tray of dishes
~ Blake Bailey
Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair. What he thought of death itself, there is no telling. Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.
~ Herman Melville
I've always been clumsy, the one who knocks glasses over.
~ Rachel Riley
it to the bottom. It clattered and rattled all the way down
~ Carolyn Brown
He fell ass over tea Kettle
~ C.E. Murphy