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If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something. -- Jack Handey
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. -- Ray Bradbury
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. -- Reid Hoffman
I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders. -- Dwayne Johnson
Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment. -- Rachel Hoffman
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder. -- Barbara Kingsolver
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. -- Shia LaBeouf
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. -- Robin Wasserman
Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off. -- Wally Lamb
There's always that jumping off place when you're doing a sex scene when you can tell the crew's like, 'OK, it's comin'. At this point, it's actually not a big deal. -- Taylor Schilling
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 -- Bill Vaughan
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. -- Tori Amos
I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go. -- Lauren Oliver
Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you. -- Lisa Kleypas
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. -- Josh Holloway
As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' ... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that? -- Nancy Bird Walton
[ 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. -- Josh Gad
A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train. -- Lewis Nordan
When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building. -- Jim Butcher
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? -- Steve Toltz
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation. -- Maya Angelou
Thinking about going to the balcony and jumping off. -- JJM
Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body. -- Tara Brach
I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around. -- Channing Tatum
Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now... -- Kate Bush
One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping... -- Dana Gould
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Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed. -- Michael Cunningham
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation. -- Cornelius Cardew
I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents. -- Luke Perry
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. -- Jodi Picoult
The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today. -- Lynne Rae Perkins
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. -- Reid Hoffman
I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That's what I really wanna do. -- Billy Magnussen
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. -- Eric Kripke
The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character. -- Kristan Higgins
Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool. -- Kevin McCloud
If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic. -- Jose Parla
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. -- Denzel Whitaker
The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up. -- Cara Delevingne
I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom. -- Jeff Vandermeer
I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim -- Alec Broers, Baron Broers
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. -- Margaret Atwood
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. -- Sean Mackin
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Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent $22.99 on a nice digital clock, and she never saw an apparition again. -- Jason Hawes
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. -- Jay Asher

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