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«I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.»

Author: Elizabeth Taylor (Actress) | Keywords: cloud, falling off, fell, pink, pinks, The Pink, thud, thudding

«I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.»

Author: Heinrich Heine (Poet, Writer) | About: Books, Boredom | Keywords: asleep, awoke, boredom, dreamed, fall asleep, fell, sheer, sheerer

«If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable...»

Author: Mitch Hedberg (Comedian) | Keywords: fell, sidewalk, sidewalks, tightrope, unacceptable, walker, walkers

«In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.»

Author: William Ernest Henley | Keywords: aloud, bloody, bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, circumstance, clutch, clutched, clutches, clutching, cried, fell, unbowed, wince, winced

«If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.»

Author: Benjamin Disraeli (Novelist, Prime Minister) | Keywords: calamity, fell, Gladstone, misfortune, pulled, Thames

«HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: advantage, classification, classifications, excusable, fell, felonious, homicide, homicides, justifiable, kinds, lawyers, praiseworthy, slain, slaying

«I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.»

Author: Rodney Dangerfield (Comedian) | Keywords: asleep, blind, blind man, fall asleep, fell, felled, felling, fells, I Woke Up, kid, library, one day, pimple, pimples, plenty, reading, The Library, woke

«And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. (Revelations 5:8)»

Author: Bible | About: Religion | Keywords: beasts, elders, fell, harping, harps, lamb, one of them, prayers, prayer book, Revelations, saints, the book, The Lamb, vials

«Do not look where you fell but where you slipped»

Author: Proverb | About: Feelings | Keywords: fell, felled, felling, fells, slipped, slipping, slip by, slip in, slip on, slip up

«Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.»

Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: angels, bright, brightest, fallen angel, fell, felled, felling, fells

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