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  • I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all. -- Tom Rush
  • Boulder was my U.S. base for the better part of 20 years, and it will always have a special place in my heart. -- Tyler Hamilton
  • I have a very sedate life. How often do you see me at a bar in Boulder? I like Boulder. We just don't live that way. -- Dan Fogelberg
  • Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder. -- Joan Van Ark
  • In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings. -- Bob Beauprez
  • It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget. -- iO Tillett Wright
  • I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow. -- Tyler Hamilton
  • As soon as I graduated from high school I was off to the biggest college my parents could afford, Colorado University at Boulder, having seen students there who looked a lot like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. -- Susan Schneider
  • Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill a cavity but they're good for your soul. Your teeth rot, but apparently your spirit prospers." -- Ken Wilber
  • Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder. -- Stanislaw Ulam
  • I have no idea how it got so big. I was just trying to find something to do while I was living in Boulder, Colorado, which isn't really a funny town. There are a lot of smart people there, but comedy isn't at the forefront of their minds. -- George Meyer
  • Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. -- Carl Sandburg
  • When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you. -- John Schneider
  • At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help. -- Vint Cerf
  • I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater. -- Diane Paulus
  • I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity. -- Rob Lowe
  • When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative. -- Jim Crace
  • I am really blessed and fortunate to be on 'NCIS.' I really enjoy it, and I really enjoy the cast and all my friends that I have on set. With that said, I grew up doing theater and went to University of Colorado in Boulder and absolutely fell in love with theater. -- Brian Dietzen
  • It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn't have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There's enough room in Colorado! But we did. -- Richard Lamm
  • The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles. -- Don Kardong
  • Then as I was wrestling as Terry Boulder. I was on a talk show with Lou Ferrigno, and I was actually bigger than he was! I went back to the dressing room that night and all of the wrestlers go 'Oh my God you're bigger than the hulk on TV' so they started calling me Terry 'The Hulk' Boulder. -- Hulk Hogan
  • Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers. -- Doris Lessing
  • The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history. -- Karl Barth
  • Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. -- Carl Sandburg
  • Judgments are like a snowball. They stick to you. As time rolls along, the snowball becomes a boulder and then an avalanche." -- John Kuypers
  • Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing. -- Shannon Hale
  • I'm going to do anything and everything, remove every boulder, every hurdle and every problem out of my way to make my dreams come true. -- Grant Cardone
  • I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus. -- Tom Stoppard
  • Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance. -- Jack Kerouac
  • Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both. -- R. Scott Bakker
  • Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'. -- Greg Child
  • If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10. -- Cyndi Lauper
  • At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help. -- Vint Cerf
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