Falling from grace Quotes

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

We know we are falling from grace, millennium.

I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.

A lot of people in Hollywood are on that ego trip. They think they're more than somebody else. I've told a lot of stars in my career, 'Hey, man you're looking down on the people who made you. lf you keep doing that, you're gonna fall back down.'

We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.

Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.

I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose your stomach or hurt yourself in the landing. You don't necessarily sense the motion. I've found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the truth once, and then again, and one more time, and there you are, feeling, for a moment, that it was sudden, your arrival at the bottom of the heap.

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

Once you're not No. 1, it doesn't matter where you are.