In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form,… — Maxine Cheshire Copy Share Image
“one must submit, like a traveller who has to ascend a mountain: if the mountain was not there, the road would be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains… But it can put mountains where there are… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
'Head wind on a mountain is an inspiring phenomenon, Every time I come home from riding the mountains, my mind is full… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
“Because it's there. -George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He… — Stephen Bezruchka Copy Share Image
I have memories of the clearest crystal mountain days imaginable, when we fortunates in the height seemed to be sky people living… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." Dag… — Change Your Life Publishing Copy Share Image
“While you are on your mountain over there climbing and facing the difficulties, I am not at the top of your mountain… — Chris McClish Copy Share Image
We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze ever… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythm of… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of… — Archilochus Copy Share Image
One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde. — David Fricke Copy Share Image
Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions,… — Jaromir Jagr Copy Share Image
It can't be a film on Kashmir and suddenly you are rolling down a mountain, singing poetry to a pretty babe. I… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain? — Pablo Francisco Copy Share Image
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
There are many names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
On your own, relying on yourself, you will never feel you are stronger than the mountain, and your respect for the peak… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain, with the sun and… — Stephon Marbury Copy Share Image
Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image