Not the Fall That Kills You/Quotes
"If we can just dodge the ground, we'll be fine."
—Fighter, Eight Bit Theater
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"The way I figure it, the fall doesn't kill you. The ground does. So I blocked it."
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Sheldon: Lois Lane is falling, accelerating at an initial rate of 32 feet per second per second. Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel. Miss Lane, who is now traveling at approximately 120 miles an hour, hits them and is immediately sliced into three equal pieces. |
Rincewind: I'm not going to ride on a magic carpet! I'm afraid of grounds! |
Arthur Dent: It's not a question of whose habitat it is, it's a question of how hard you hit it! |
"Falling's not a problem, —Florence + the Machine, Falling
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"You know, Spider-Man and Superman make it look so damn easy. Why doesn’t the person falling three hundred feet get a broken neck, or at least a whole stack of cracked ribs, when Spidey snags her with a web?"
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