Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End.

There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

I don't particularly want to smear myself into a hillside.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

What is the distinction between "misfortune" and "calamity"? If Mr. Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune; but if someone pulled him out, it would be a calamity.

I tell you naught for your comfort Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

They are spinning and people are dying.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.

I don't like to watch train wrecks.

I don't want to die in a race car.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

And it's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard rain gonna fall.

It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!