"The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old."

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Brett Dennen

#Strong Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands”
“Whether I went to school or not, I would always study.”
“No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. Youâ€™ve been caught, my friend. You may as well reconcile yourself to it.â€ Nick did not bother trying to deny it. â€œI was going to be so much smarter than you,â€ he muttered. Sir Ross grinned. â€œI prefer to think that intelligence has nothing to do with it. For if a manâ€™s intellect is measured by his ability to remain untouched by love, I would be the greatest idiot alive.”
“American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.”
“There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”

Source : "More Ballmer Madness: "There's No Chance that the iPhone is Going to Get any significant market share" by Charlie Sorrel, www.wired.com. May 1, 2007.
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
“I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).”

Source : Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books
“I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.”

Source : Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.264, Random House

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