Tripped Over Quotes

#1. A town so small, you tripped over people you hated every day.

Gillian Flynn

#2. She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.

Nora Roberts

#3. I nearly tripped over Stieglitz, my dog, a forty-pound black-and-white keeshond (pronounced caze-hawnd) furball. He lunged at me with unbridled glee because the mere sight of my presence always made his day. It's important to have a dog. Dogs love unconditionally. (Thwonk)

Joan Bauer

#4. stepped backward, tripped over a hassock, fell to the lobby rug. "Jack -

Stephen King

#5. Never before have so many people tripped over one another in their eagerness to get rich and thereby impaled themselves on the consequences of their own greed. The greatest irony of it all is that it's done in the name of contentment

N. T. Wright

#6. Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?"
"Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me - "
"I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times - "
"Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand -

J.K. Rowling

#7. You tripped over my baggage, when it could have been easily navigated by more agile feet.

Fiona Helmsley

#8. I ducked again as her Hellfire sword whistled over my head, and sidestepped so quickly I tripped over a chair. I was in such a hurry to scramble to my feet that for a few seconds I ran in place, like the Road Runner.

MaryJanice Davidson

#9. When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.

Bonnie Tyler

#10. I've tripped over a planet and I don't know anything anymore, I don't know anything because nothing will ever be able to compare to this.

Tahereh Mafi

#11. My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: I want a spiritual teacher.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. She fell, rolled, kicked out with one boot. The alien tripped over her leg and went sprawling, spilling one queen's egg onto its side. Ripley screamed in pain as her wounded leg was jarred, but then she was standing again, aiming the charge thumper and firing her last shot into the monster's face.

Tim Lebbon

#13. You aren't human. Your mother is a...sex demon." She tripped over that a little, because seriously, that was one of those things you never thought you'd say. {Location 2966}

Larissa Ione

#14. The last time I checked, I wasn't the one who tripped over a glass container of sugar that I had myself dropped ... after, of course, having received several bruises from an attempt to retrieve a flip-flop that had somehow ended up in the sink.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#15. He was just entering the club ahead of me, a tall and rather emaciated man of about seventy, a little unsteady on his feet. He tripped over the doormat as he went in and stumbled forward; the hall porter jumped out and caught him by the elbow.

Nevil Shute

#16. A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

Gillian Flynn

#17. As she walks through her problems, miseries and bad days, she couldn't help but notice how her gait has become more poised and elegant. Earlier - she tripped over at the sight of a problem. Now - she keeps her head high and wins over them.
Her problems made a woman out of a girl!

Saru Singhal

#18. In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.

Paul Merton

#19. Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way.

Maureen Johnson

#20. I saw you chase that dream. You never tripped over a tiny pebble, but you ran into a giant mountain.

Ty Crawford

#21. I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

E.B. White

#22. A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

Cullen Hightower

#23. I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#24. After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.

Maria V. Snyder

#25. He was much interested in all family activities, and was so often tripped over that they named him after Ghologhosh, the god of small curses. Not

Sharyn November

#26. Okay there, Ty?"
"Yes, sir," Ty answered with a grimace. "Bad leg. Old football injury. Tripped over the water boy. There was Gatorade everywherem it was horrible.

Abigail Roux

#27. The children of our Lord walk gladly in his ways; they have confidence in him, and so when they fall, they rise again; and if, instead of stopping to grumble about the stone they have tripped over, they humble themselves at their fall, this helps them to advance with great strides in his love.

Vincent De Paul

#28. I just tripped over a pair of shoes and almost fell down and broke my neck and no I wasn't wearing them.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#29. You deserved to get run over. And besides, I barely tapped you. The only reason you broke your leg was because you panicked and tripped over your own feet.

Janet Evanovich

#30. Damn, girl. You are a kinky fuck."

I glanced down. The sheet was spattered with blood, my skin covered with dried red lines. Awkward. "Oh. I tripped and fell."

"On his fangs? Over and over?

Jill Myles

#31. If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.

Demetri Martin

#32. And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said, "Bathroom door beside you," and picked up a vase and hit the rising Damon over the head with it. Hard.

L.J.Smith

#33. Death tripped down the corridor, changing step, struck out here and there, danced pirouettes; often I felt his breath on my face when he was miles away; often I fell asleep and dreamed while he stood leaning over my bed.

Arthur Koestler

#34. I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with or spilled food all over myself.

Prince Royce

#35. My intellect, my wit - I'd forgotten I'd even possessed them, and they were dull and neglected, to be sure. But in the company of others who prized thought over action, laughter over brooding, they blossomed and sharpened. My tongue fairly tripped with sparkling phrases, insightful comments.

Melanie Benjamin

#36. For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.

Brittany Howard

#37. I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.

Lauren German