Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether I am on a rafter t….

One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up to expect certain things to happen - ….

As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I a….

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, eve….

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall..

A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side….

All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall..

I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that our fall is cushioned by faith--fait….

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it fall….

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I inter….

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall..

But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea belo….

It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in you….

It's tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you're not quite there and yo….

I didn't set out to become a leader, so I always come back to my first lesson - just do it. If you're the first one out there actively doing somethin….

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid..

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit..

Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall….

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in t….

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the cho….

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain..