cliff

• “Here what they call a cliff was a crumbling bank of whitey-brown earth not fifty feet high.”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “It is well to specify that in the preceding remarks the term cliff ruin has been applied to small settlements, comprising generally less than four rooms, sometimes only one or two, and usually located on high and almost inaccessible sites.”

  The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198

• “It's been said that the only good thing that comes of jumping off a cliff is the way the mind becomes wonderfully concentrated.”

  Big Questions and Little Trinkets

• “Whatever keeps you from throwing her out the window or throwing yourself off a cliff is the right thing to do! tomama Said,”

  Shit and Spit… | Her Bad Mother

• “Inspired by National Geographic wildlife filmmaker stories from the field, the 30 and 45 second brand spots recreate these extraordinary moments from narrowly escaping a treacherous fall while filming on a remote mountain cliff to wading through leech-infested waters in search of howler monkeys.”

  Nat Geo Wild Reveals New Brand Campaign *Updated* « Art & Business of Motion

• “In Brooklyn, the beach just over the cliff is where Eilis comes on a Sunday afternoon, where she goes swimming with Jim Farrell and realises how much she likes him.”

  The Guardian: A life in books: Colm Tóibín

• “Watching the Liberals follow their socialist leader off the political cliff is wonderful.”

  Lieberman on party switch: 'All options are open'

• “You cannot predict the cliff from the flatness of the plateau.”

  March 29th, 2009

• “Then one night, I dreamed I stood on top of a mountain cliff, near the edge.”

  The Pursuit of Happiness.

• “The first thing you should do when you are at the edge of a cliff is to recognize that you are at the edge of a cliff.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Reframing Public Ignorance

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