John Muir Quotes
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.John Muir
Quotes to Explore
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
Edgar Wright -
We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
Valerie Jarrett -
In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
Namie Amuro -
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
Salman Khan -
My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
Kat Graham -
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
Malcolm D. Lee
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
Tamara Tunie -
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
Malcolm McDowell -
I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
Damian Loeb -
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill -
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
Irina Shayk -
I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
Verne Troyer -
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Carl von Clausewitz -
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen -
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs
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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
Edward Teller -
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
Pankaj Mishra -
Hasta las flores, para emanar sus perfumes, han menester morirse un poco.
Antonio Porchia -
I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
Val McDermid -
I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.
Marla Maples -
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.
John Muir