Tumble Quotes - page 2

His speech is clumsy, with a toadlike indolence, long winded, pedantic, choppy. The words tumble from his mouth in sentence fragments, which he holds back as much as possible, as if they were earning interest. It takes forever and a day for him to push out a clump of hardened brain snot. Then he writhes in painful ecstasy, as if he had sugar on his rotten teeth. A very slow blab machine. An obsolete model with a non-working switch - it can't be turned off unless you cut off the electric power altogether. So I'd have to smash him in the kisser. No, I'd have to knock him unconscious. But even if he were unconscious he'd keep talking. Even if his vocal cords were sliced through, he'd keep talking like a ventriloquist. Even if his throat were cut and his head were chopped off, speech balloons would still dangle from his mouth like gases emitted by internal decay. (Klaus Kinski)
In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble, They're only made of clay, But our love is here to stay. View quote
Ira Gershwin
The rains tumble down in the sky, Young swallows have learned how to fly, The leaves that were green are no longer so green, And it looks like the summer is over. View quote
Tom Springfield
Another tumble! That's his precious nose! View quote
Thomas Hood
You know, when you're young, God sweeps you up. He holds you there. The real snag is to stay there and to know how to fall. All those days when you can't hold on any longer. When you tumble. The test is being able to climb up again. View quote
Colum McCann
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world. View quote
Rob Sheffield
Memories cartwheel out of her head & tumble across the floor. View quote
Anthony Doerr
I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest. View quote
Philip Yancey
"I've been on my own before, Mather.” And I hadn't been happy a moment. But happiness is a fleeting creature. It's no birthright. Not anything I expect but something I accept when I tumble into it. Meantime, power will do nicely. View quote
Glen Cook
One great part of the joculator's profession was the teaching of bears, apes, horses, dogs, and other animals, to imitate the actions of men, to tumble, to dance, and to perform a variety of tricks, contrary to their nature; and sometimes he learned himself to counterfeit the gestures and articulations of the brutes. View quote
Joseph Strutt
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree. (Beau Willimon)
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. View quote
John Lahr
you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing. View quote
Naomi Shihab Nye
Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society. View quote
James Carville
I really like you, Midori. A lot.” "How much is a lot?” "Like a spring bear,” I said. "A spring bear?” Midori looked up again. "What's that all about? A spring bear.” "You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring, and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, "Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?' So you and the bear cub spend the whole day in each other's arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?” "Yeah. Really nice.” "That's how much I like you. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble. View quote
Max Lucado
The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork. View quote
Wilson Mizner
Despairingly, sometimes, I seek the comfort of a benign god, Shaarilla. My mind goes out, lying awake at night, searching through black barrenness for something-anything-which will take me to it, warm me, protect me, tell me that there is order in the chaotic tumble of the universe; that it is consistent, this precision of the planets, not simply a brief, bright spark of sanity in an eternity of malevolent anarchy. View quote
Michael Moorcock
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest for 'Tis thine own And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind. View quote
George Herbert
Oh, even the leaves laugh As you spin and tumble through We explode in color All for your honor. View quote
Happy Rhodes
By all means sometimes be alone salute thyself see what thy soul doth wear dare to look in thy chest and tumble up and down what thou findest there. (William Wordsworth)
Thats the trouble. all i wanted was a tumble in the hay. oh, boy, i said. ill bet that cute thing is fun and games. what he doesn't know about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, i can sure teach him. View quote
Alice Borchardt
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged. View quote
Lord Byron
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. View quote
William Shakespeare
You, Bob! are rather insolent, you know, At being disappointed in your wish To supersede all warblers here below, And be the only Blackbird in the dish; And then you overstrain yourself, or so, And tumble downward like the flying fish Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob, And fall, for lack of moisture quite a-dry, Bob! View quote
Robert Southey