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"I love the example of Jefferson because he's willing to murder his government and then he becomes a president and then his face is in a mountain. Just because he exercised his power."
"For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain."
"Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away."
"We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee."
"Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved."
"and silence is the golden mountain"
"Have you ever climbed a mountain? You see, once you arrive at the top of a mountain, you think you've reached the highest point. But it's only an impression that doesn't last long."
"His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master."
"Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains."
"Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?"
"Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist."
"I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves."
"Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains."
"I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up."
"You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high."
"Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains."
"Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief."
"I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows."
"The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee."
"Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder."
