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  • The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

  • One thing Fringe has is no shortage of ideas. There are so many jumping off points that we could use and have thought about. I just wouldn't want to pull a trick like that on the viewers. I really want to reward them. I honestly and sincerely feel that it's the most miraculous fan base I've ever seen, so I just want to make sure I use every fiber of my body to deliver for them what I think is going to be satisfying for their loyalty.

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

    Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.215, Melville House
  • [ 1600 Penn] is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now being forced into this world as a jumping off point. But, in no way is it the crux of the series. It's simply an introduction to the world.

    Character   Jumping   Way  
    "Josh Gad and Jason Winer Talk 1600 Penn, Creating the White House Family Comedy, Improvisation During Filming and Viewers’ Perception of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 8, 2013.
  • When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

    "Timeless: Showrunners preview NBC time-travel series". Interview with Shirley Li, ew.com. September 29, 2016.
  • 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.

    Ocean   Fall   Eye  
    Alice Hoffman (2008). “The Third Angel”, p.242, Random House
  • The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.

  • 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

    Suicide   Nuts   Bridges  
  • You get to shoot things, and things blow up, and you're jumping off of buildings. It's insane! And hot girls. And you get to dress cool. And you're in a movie with Tom Cruise, come on! So it's a dream come true. Truly.

    Girl   Dream   Blow  
  • If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  • I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.

    Dream   Jumping   Flying  
  • The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself at him, grabbing on to his neck with both arms. She held him so tightly his spine cracked. She was sobbing. Bawling. Crying so hard her whole body was shaking. He didn't ask any questions, just wrapped himself around her. I'm not okay," she said hoarsely between breaths. "Rhage...I'm not okay.

    Feet   Jumping   Doors  
    J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.120, Penguin
  • It’s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system

  • The kind of approach that inspires me is taking what you've built and figuring out how to turn it into a new experience by expanding it smartly. The challenge is figuring out what's the best way to do that without totally jumping off of a cliff.

    "Why This Indie Game Studio Chose a Feminist Drama Over Guns and Zombies". Interview with Matt Connolly, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2013.
  • I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says.

    War   Fire   Jumping  
    Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
  • I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building or blowing my brains out with a gun might stop the suffering. but something about spending a night with a knife in my hand did it. The next morning I called my friend Susan as the sun came up, begged her to help me. I don't think a woman in the whole history of my family had ever done that before, had ever sat in the middle of the road like that and said, in the middle of her life, "I cannot walk another step further--somebody has to help me.

    Morning   Gun   Night  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.101, Penguin
  • Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

    Jumping   Careers   Needs  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

    Trust   Faith   Jumping  
    Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.458, Simon and Schuster
  • Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.

    Time   Jumping   White  
    Song: Nocturn, Album: Aerial, 2005
  • Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink.

    Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.316, Simon and Schuster
  • I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

  • The work is primarily subject-driven. All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in particular context, at a specific moment in time. The thoughtful preparedness that defines my working method actually facilitates spontaneity and allows me to embrace surprise. I always have a game plan but view it as merely the jumping off point.

  • I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving.

    Men   Cities   Jumping  
    Source: www.seventeen.com
  • 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.

    Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.145, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • I want to go to New Zealand so bad! I have amazing memories of being in that country, of jumping off of a building in Auckland and having so much fun.

    Country   Fun   Memories  
  • Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

    Fun   Thinking   Jumping  
    Camilla Lackberg (2012). “Camilla Lackberg Crime Thrillers 1-3: The Ice Princess, The Preacher, The Stonecutter”, p.117, HarperCollins UK
  • I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

    Writing   Jumping   Way  
  • If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

    Thinking   Fire   Jumping  
    FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Aug 03, 2016
  • I once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a building...I changed my mind at the last minute, so I just flipped over and landed on my feet. Two little kittens nearby saw what happened and one turns to the other and says, "See, that's how it's done."

    Funny   Suicide   Humor  
  • Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

    Jumping   Stories   Body  
    Source: www.tarabrach.com
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