Quotes / I Fell for Hours

"At last his sail-broad vans
He spread for flight, and, in the surging smoke
Uplifted, spurns the ground; thence many a league,
As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides
Audacious; but, that seat soon failing, meets
A vast vacuity. All unawares,
Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb-down he drops


Ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour
Down had been falling, had not, by ill chance,
The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud,
Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him
As many miles aloft."

— John Milton, Paradise Lost

Bill & Ted: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
[pause]
Bill & Ted: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
[another pause]
Bill: Dude, this is a totally deep hole!
Ted: Yeah! ...Now what?
Bill: I dunno.
[another pause]
Bill & Ted: ...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
[yet another pause]
Bill: Hey, you wanna play Twenty Questions?
Ted: Okay!

— Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Carmen: How long have we been falling?
Juni: (looks at watch) I don't know. My watch doesn't tell time.
Carmen: Best guess.
Juni: I'd say about three hours.
Carmen: Feels like four.

— Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH- Holy crap, this goes on forever."

— The Scout, Team Fortress 2

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! ...Come on, I don't have all day!"

— The Spy, Team Fortress 2

Lobe: Freakazoid! Why's it taking us so long to fall!?
Freakazoid: 'cuz it's funny!
Lobe: No it's not, it's just stupid! It's as dumb as that Handman episode!
THUD!

— Freakazoid!

"I have been FALLING for THIRTY MINUTES!!"

— Loki, Thor: Ragnarok

Harry looked around, and then fell down the spiral staircase for the rest of the summer.

—Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash

Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end?

— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Now falling, when you first start, is a hair-raising business, but after you have fallen for a mile and twenty minutes and nothing serious happens you grow rather used to the feel of it.

— Grampa in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

Meap: My word, we've been fallin' for a long time!
Doofenshmirtz: Oh, a joke about the commercial break! Yeah, that's how I want to spend my last few seconds!

— Phineas and Ferb

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