The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's… — Josephine Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, Malcolm MacPherson vividly brings to life this harrowing story of courage, pathos, and war at… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else… — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
Public service announcement: In case of a terrorist attack, bottled water and duct tape are not going to do a damn thing.… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I want people to feel that they've gotten to know the people in the film a little bit, gotten to see Pine… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I love Mayberry! The people here are wonderful! When I'm at the grocery store people come up and hug me. Friends pick… — Betty Lynn Copy Share Image
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
