John Muir Quotes

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

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• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Emotion
  • Performance
  • Impact

• Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Time
  • Vision

• However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Well
  • Ease
  • Rapping

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Secret
  • Ever

• My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Space
  • Brain
  • Busy

• If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Home
  • Want
  • Independent

• I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Home
  • Reading

• A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Ambiguity

• Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Anybody
  • Any

• I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Artist

• I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Women
  • Architecture

• If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • May
  • Book

• I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

  

  Ann Patchett
  • People
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Born
  • Mountain
  • Mood

• Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth, Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Earth
  • Forget
  • Mountain

• Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

  

  John Muir
  • Mountain