Mountain Quotes
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Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest
Ueda Akinari
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I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.
Tommy Cooper
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Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.
Marcus Aurelius
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I have a road bike and a mountain bike, and I tend to use them both a lot. They help you keep your balance and your stamina.
Andy Serkis
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Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
Bradley Chicho
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Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.
Gautama Buddha
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Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn't change what it is, just as whether an object is a mountain or not doesn't depend on whether it's in a group or in isolation.
Alan Stern
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A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.
Dolly Parton
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In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler Yeats
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Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.
H. P. Lovecraft
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A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West Side Story' did it very cleverly, in a different way.' But if you look at 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'Titanic,' 'Avatar,' 'Grease,' 'Brokeback Mountain'... they're all 'Romeo and Juliet' stories.
Kelly Asbury
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Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.
Anthony Minghella
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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Andy Rooney
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There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.
Anya Seton
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In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.
Olaf Stapledon
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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
William Henry Ashley
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There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.
Andy Richter
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We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.
Mark Tobey
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I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.
Michelle Pfeiffer
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I love London, but I miss air; I miss space. My dream is to find a mountain where I can live.
Jessie Buckley
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He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.
Ryunosuke Satoro
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Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself.
Kyle Kinane
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Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty, those mountains and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it's been made for a movie, it's like something out of fantasy except it's real.
Violante Placido