Rapid Descent Quotes

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'

The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.