Jumping Off A Bridge Quotes

• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

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  Ray Bradbury

  Courage   Humor   Greatness  

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.215, Melville House

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• He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

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  Alice Hoffman

  Ocean   Fall   Eye  

  Alice Hoffman (2008). “The Third Angel”, p.242, Random House

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• What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

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  Bill Vaughan

  Suicide   Nuts   Bridges  

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• Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

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  David Levithan

  Cheating   Teenager   Mean  

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.145, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I love to create and I love to be challenged and I love to do things that are scary, so I think I would probably think about jumping off a bridge if somebody told me that's going to make that shot real great. I'd be like, "Okay, here we go, let's do it." Like, yeah.

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  Emmy Rossum

  Real   Thinking   Jumping  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

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  Todd Solondz

  Self   Bridges   Hype  

  "Sanity and Solitude: Cogent Ramblings of a Lone Aesthetic". Book by Bob Spencer, p. 81, 2012.

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• Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

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  Steve Toltz

  Children   Jumping   Bridges  

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.529, Spiegel & Grau

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• I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.

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  Tori Amos

  Party   Mean   Eye  

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