Top 90 Cliff Quotes

Labour has repeatedly emphasised that in order to avoid a cliff edge for our economy there will need to be a time-limited transitional period between our exit from the E.U. and the new lasting relationship we build with our European partners.

I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in ‘Dumbo’s Circus.’ I’m used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

The U.S. have printed money; they intend to tax the rich in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. These are things that sees anyone who dares to propose them in Greece and Europe labeled an extremist, when at the same time, it’s what Obama does.

If you want a measure of how private a place the dressing room was when I was growing up at Manchester United, consider this: even Sir Alex Ferguson would knock before coming into the dressing room at the Cliff, the old training ground. The dressing room is for the players – and the players only.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog’s name, but I love dogs.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

I kind of went through a rough period. I could have kept going down that road and then off the cliff and into the ocean.

Until Japan’s economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the ‘Japan model’ – with its megacorporations, jobs for life, state control of strategic industries – or the ‘American model’ of largely unfettered markets.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that’s it.

Sometimes you’re gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that’s when you find new music, places that you’ve never been before.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

I jumped off a cliff backwards for ‘I Am Number Four,’ which was pretty cool. I’d never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.

I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You’ve got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

I’ve often thought that we left the original ‘Phantom’ with a little bit of a cliff hanger, and I thought, ‘Well, why not to do a sequel to it’ at one point.

The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn’t fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job.

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It’s the big cliff that we’ve all got to climb.

Age is definitely an issue for women in TV. There comes a point – especially if you’re a woman – when your career just falls off a cliff. I’m not being self-pitying. That’s just the way it is.

For me, even though I love, love, love both Cliff Chiang and Brian Azzarello, I haven’t read the new ’52 Wonder Woman’ past the first issue. It’s just… you know, once I’m on a book for a really long time… it’s like going through a divorce. It takes a while before I can be ‘friends again’ with the character.

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It’s a mistake to essentially collapse those two – they’re not the same. I don’t think you can achieve everything at once.

I was absolutely blown away when I first talked to Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan at how ambitious they wanted ‘Westworld’ to be in looking at the drives that are leading human beings over the cliff of existence.

I don’t really recognise success. I don’t see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

People with high levels of wellbeing have been careful to work out early in the morning and not to have heavy meals throughout the day because you kind of fall off a cliff in terms of your energy by 2 or 3:00 if you have a lunch with a lot of heavy foods.

With ‘Horror Story’, it really was, ‘You’re going to run; you’re going to jump off this cliff, and trust that that Ryan Murphy is going to catch you.’ So I just ran head-on into it and jumped off the edge of that cliff.

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we’re humans and not some kind of bird.

Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end – it might have been a car over a cliff. But it’s true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton’s backyard.

Nazare is crazy. When you’re out in the ocean, and you’re a little bit past the wave, outside, it doesn’t really look that big. And then, once you get towed into this thing, it is like coming down a mountain, like going over a cliff.

My favorite sitcom of all time is ‘Cheers.’ That’s a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn’t like Cliff.

With acting, you have to become someone else. That’s the fun part of it for me – to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

My middle name is Cliff, so Ive been nicknamed Cliffy in the past.

People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there’s tons and tons of information out there, and I’m already well tapped into it.

Washington’s answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The ‘fiscal cliff’ process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation’s so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

I thrive on change. That’s probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They’ll be going along on one key and I’ll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that’s how my life is.

People might say, ‘Jimmy Cliff, you’ve done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?’

If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don’t think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.

I love people that, in the face of falling off a cliff, still want to fight about something that happened five minutes ago, going, ‘Now, you know I’m right about that,’ even though they’re facing imminent doom.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

You can’t erase Bill Cosby’s contributions. That’s the conflict. He’s one of the most influential comedians of all time, and ‘The Cosby Show’ is one of the most influential sitcoms ever. When I watched as a kid, I wanted Cliff to be my dad. Everybody did.

When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Austria. Across the street from our house was an ancient castle on a cliff. So when I first heard fairy tales, I felt as if the magic of ‘Cinderella’ or ‘Sleeping Beauty’ was taking place right in my own neighborhood.

Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn’t carry out an intelligent debate. He oversimplifies, he exaggerates, and he basically led the Republican Party over the cliff in the fall of 2013. He has shown no qualifications, no legislation being passed, doesn’t provide leadership, and he has no real experience.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn’t go over a cliff.

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won’t settle for commercial reasons.

When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.