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Definition of Cliff

Cliff

A high, steep rock; a precipice.

See Clef.

Related Definitions:

Clef, High, Precipice, Rock, See, Steep

Cliff Quotations

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.
Dwayne Johnson

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.
Dennis Rodman

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
Rita Mae Brown

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.
George Galloway

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
Sara Paretsky

There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.
Johnny Vegas

Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.
John Ratzenberger

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
Patrick Warburton

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
John Ratzenberger

I'm off to sit on a cliff.
Nik Kershaw

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.
Richie Sambora

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.
Christopher Atkins

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
Lee Child

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.
Jim Otto

And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.
David E. Price

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
Chaka Khan

I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
Larry Mullen

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.
Ruth Park

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Cliff Translations

cliff in Dutch is klif, klip
cliff in German is Klippe
cliff in Italian is faraglione
cliff in Norwegian is klippe, skrent
cliff in Portuguese is penhasco
cliff in Spanish is precipicio, acantilado
cliff in Swedish is klippa

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