Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hoagland

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller....

Edward Hoagland

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

Bear Grylls

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

Bear Grylls

I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.

Arthur C. Clarke

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

Baltasar Gracian

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

Daniel Handler

It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.

Daniel Handler

If you have ever slept in a covered casserole dish on the highest peak of a mountain range, then you know that it is an uncomfortable place to lay one's head, even if you find a dish towel inside it that can serve as a blanket.

Craig Kelly

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

Benjamin Graham

The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Charlie Munger

We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain.

Charles Manson

We use the word God. God hooks all the other words up. I'm the pope. I'm ten times the pope. I'm sixty times the pope. But I'm the pope in the hills and in the mountains.

William Shakespeare

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

They're like very steep, peaked mountains -- and only the tops are vegetated,

Donald Miller

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

I really didn't they were going to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Jack Kerouac

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...

Peter Davenport

I have not just a mountain of data, perhaps a mountain range of data,

Bob Iger

Though our mountain may be slightly smaller in scale to the one you find in Asia, it is remarkable in its authenticity.

I'm going to set the strategy, we're the consultant, we're going to walk down from the mountain and we're going to give it to people.

Karl Philipp Moritz

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

Henry David Thoreau

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

Gary Snyder

Streams and mountains never stay the same.

Jeremy Jones

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

Jeff Bridges

I'm in New Mexico making a movie called "Granite Mountain." I'm playing the head of the organization called Statesman, which is the United States version of Kingsman. I'm like how Michael Caine was in the original.

George Saunders

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

Horace

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Horace

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.