Tripping Over Quotes:

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Perseverance, Stay Strong, Eye, Strength And Determination, Strength And Perseverance

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

- Christian Wiman

source: Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.147, Copper Canyon Press

topic: Garden, Backyards, Tripping, Tripping Over

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

- Robert Breault

topic: Two, Feet, Over You, Pick Yourself Up, Tripping Over

What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.

- Karin Tidbeck

source: Source: www.raintaxi.com

topic: Details, Stories, World, Tripping, Tripping Over

Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

- Robert Englund

source: Source: houseofgeekery.com

topic: Feet, Hollywood, Tripping, Tripping Over

Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, but really good triers, Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored, A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!

- KRS-One

topic: Liars, Rap, Tired, Wannabes, Tripping Over

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

- Rachel Cohn

source: Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

topic: Book, Eye, Hands, Tripping, Tripping Over

I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.

- Amanda Stott

topic: Song, Etc, Tripping, Tripping Over

I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

- Thomas Sadoski

topic: Running, Fall, Python, Three Stooges, Tripping

When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

- Hulk Hogan

topic: Mistake, Wrestling, Feet, Tripping, Tripping Over

[When to have a facelift:] If you're tripping over your neck.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Over You, Tripping, Necks, Facelifts, Tripping Over

She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.721, Simon and Schuster

topic: Forever, Hem, Littles, Tripping, Took For Granted

You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.

- Michael J. Sullivan

source: "Theft of Swords". Book by Michael J. Sullivan, November 3, 2011.

topic: Strong, Hate, Stupid, Tripping, Tripping Over

There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.

- Slash

topic: Opposites, People, Drunk, Tripping, Inconsiderate

Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

- Paloma Faith

source: "Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

topic: Mistake, World, Tripping, Singer-songwriters, Stop Worrying