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"A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse."
"Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!"
"A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted."
"Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain."
"The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them."
"And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience."
"You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that."
"Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel."
"The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse."
"sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler"
"I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height."
"The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found."
"Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado."
"If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement."
"Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?"
"Hosting the Emmys is a challenge for me. I guess it's the equivalent of someone who needs to climb a mountain or jump out of a plane. It's that kind of thing, where this could go terribly wrong. And I love the feeling of when it goes right."
"In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining."
"Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass."
"The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough."
"I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music."
