"A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels."
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"I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill."
"Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies."
"I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill."
"We've all had that moment where the agent thought he hit hold. You hear it's like Hamburger Hill in the background."
"If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct."
"London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties."
"If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
"I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches"
"Praise a hill, but keepe below."
"I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort."
"I left my car parked at the top of Lombard Street Hill, and I forgot to put the breaks on. It's the funniest thing. The car is running down the hill."
"When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!"
"There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders."