Eric Shipton Quotes
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
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The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail is unlike any other performance venue in the world, set with mountains and trees as a backdrop.
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& I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face
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The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.
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I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.
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You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.
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Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
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My face is my passport.
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Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
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In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.
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So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.
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He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
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The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
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One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
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Few mountains have such a superb array of ridges and faces.
