Thousand Feet Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable…
— Cynthia Heimel
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I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch…
— Dr. Seuss
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An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there,…
— Dawn Powell
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We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest. Only it is…
— Tenzing Norgay
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Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down…
— Dorothy Gilman
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If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock,…
— Olive Schreiner
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There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.
— Hudson Stuck
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A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree…
— Mary Ellen W. Smoot
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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply…
— Alfred Armand Montapert
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What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go…
— Roald Dahl
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Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you…
— Nora Roberts
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When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived…
— John McPhee
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Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people…
— Nora Roberts
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Jack Sparrow: No! Not good! Stop! Not good! What are you doing? You've burned all the food, the shade, the RUM! Elizabeth Swann: Yes, the…
— Pirates Of The Carribein
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Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable…
— Cynthia Heimel
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Gonna join the mile high club at thirty-seven thousand feet.
— Nickelback
Who Wrote These Thousand Feet Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Thousand Feet Quotes as follows: