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While we lie tumbling in the hay. -- William Shakespeare
Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down, -- George H. W. Bush
The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly. -- Hirohito
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. -- Louise Bogan
It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling. -- Svetlana Khorkina
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. -- Ian Anderson
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it -- Samuel Johnson
Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped. -- Glenda Millard
I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm -- Phillip Lim
White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking. -- Edith Sitwell
David O. Russell's best films are thrilling high wire acts that run the moment to moment risk of tumbling to the ground. In his latest, "Joy," Russell has more trouble than usual keeping his balance on the wire. -- David O. Russell
These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!' -- Terence McKenna
My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life. -- Pat Conroy
When a cupboard is full to overflowing and the doors are opened up, that which is within comes tumbling out and nothing can stop it. When floodgates are opened, the water rushes forth with tremendous power and force, carrying all before it. So with the -- Eileen Caddy
Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart. -- Salman Rushdie
The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths. -- Barack Obama
You need to circle the goals God wants you to go after, the promises God wants you to claim, and the dreams God wants you to pursue. And once you spell Jericho, you need to circle it in prayer. Then you need to keep circling until the walls come tumbling down. -- Mark Batterson
The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater. -- Frederick Lenz
I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it. -- Amy Hempel
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.... -- John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Tumbling has always been my favorite. -- Aly Raisman
Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut! -- Russell Brand
Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers -- e. e. cummings
I do tumbling and flips; there's a gym I go to for that. -- Jake Short
If liberty sang a song, little,as the larynx of a bird,nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall. -- Ahmad Shamlou
And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open. -- Lauren DeStefano
The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed. -- William O. Douglas
She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss. -- Cassandra Clare
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear. -- John Updike
A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body. -- Jeremy Collier
In a livid wet dress, under the tumbling mist... had run ecstatically up that ridge above Moulinet to be felled there by a thunderbolt." -- Vladimir Nabokov
Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over. -- Buzz Aldrin
Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. -- Jonathan Swift
If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work. -- Gore Verbinski
You made the sobbing white of lilies too,tumbling lightly across a sea of sighs ontheir dreamy way to weeping moonlight throughthe azure incense of the pale horizon!" -- Stephane Mallarme
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing. -- Julie Andrews
The nearest one came to a tumble dryer was if the laundry basket was dropped on the way to the washing-line and then the whole lot went tumbling down the drive. -- Ann Patras
Travis let his knees give way, sending her tumbling to the floor."Ouch!" she squealed, looking up at Travis."America's a friend of mine. You need to find another lap, Lex." -- Jamie McGuire
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody. -- Liz Phair

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