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There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns. -- Andy Richter
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. -- Brenda Ueland
It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience. -- Vernon Johns
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. -- Matthew Arnold
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. -- Khalil Gibran
Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach. -- John Muir
Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank -- Don King
Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank. -- Don King
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. -- Robert Macfarlane
The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops. -- Phillips Brooks
I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view. -- Julian Lennon
If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity. -- Burnett Hillman Streeter
Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops. -- William Shakespeare
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. -- Winston Graham
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn. -- Shane Koyczan
I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?' -- Aarti Sequeira
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. -- Khalil Gibran
Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances. -- John Berger
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.' -- Paul Provenza
What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it. -- Vir Das
I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way. -- Tim McGraw
The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present. -- Joseph Henry
Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels -- Matsuo Basho
At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain. -- John Lennon
The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there. -- Vince Lombardi
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another. -- Marianne Williamson
Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. -- Barry Finlay
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top. -- Yvon Chouinard
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top -- Yvon Chouinard
I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain. -- Andrew Garfield
You have to push through every barrier to get to the mountain top. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
No one ever reached the top of a mountain by digging underneath it. -- Chris Murray
You can't reach a mountain top without friends to help you get there. -- Leeland Mooring Lead Singer of the Band "leeland"
Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb. -- Confucius
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. -- Wislawa Szymborska
When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. -- Anya Seton
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. -- Edmund Hillary
Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain. -- Jim Rohn
If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking. -- Robin Sharma
You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain -- Miyamoto Musashi
It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking. -- Richard C. Miller
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School. -- Robert Fulghum
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down. -- Jeanne Moreau
Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain. -- John Wooden
There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top. -- Al McGuire
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. -- Paul D. Boyer
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. -- Andy Rooney
You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time? -- Robert Riskin
Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question. -- Billy Connolly
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. -- Dag Hammarskjold
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain. -- Steve Fossett
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. -- Paul Stanley
You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away. -- Arlene Blum
If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top. -- Roy Rogers
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. -- Denis Waitley
Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain....at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning. -- Siddharth Katragadda
We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves. -- Langston Hughes
Going after the QB is like playing king of the mountain. When you get the QB, you're on top of the mountain. -- Joe Greene
Win told me that one isnâ??t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb. -- Lisa Kleypas
A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn. -- Joichi Ito
Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself. -- Thomas S. Monson
Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top. -- DJ Khaled
It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is much more rewarding to get to the top of the mountain and share your experience with others than to show up by yourself, exausted. -- -Shandel Slaten
I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top. -- Greg Mortenson
The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky. -- Fred Bear
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer. -- Harlan Coben
The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain. -- Robert M. Pirsig
I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't. -- Dana Hill
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. -- Andy Goldsworthy
The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it. -- Herbert A. Simon
After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive. -- David Levithan
Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time. -- Alain Gerbault
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands? But the scene is grey. -- Stephen Crane
I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top. -- Tim Cahill

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