"Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Dream Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Rodney set a plate in front of me and one in front of my mother. I almost fainted when she began to eat instead of hurling it at him. Had one of the vampires gotten tired of her bitching and bitten her into a better mood? She caught my flabbergasted look. "I watched what he put in it" she said defensively. Rodney, instead of being insulted, just laughed. "You're welcome, Justina.”
“Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?”
“Canada is great. It's one of the most beautiful cities and I'm definitely going to miss it a lot.”
“Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the â€œcojonesâ€ to carry our argument to the people.”
“Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than to thrust clumsy bureaucratic fingers into its sensitive mechanism. In particular, we cannot afford to damage its mainspring, freedom of competitive enterprise.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 133), March 30, 1962.
“So much alarmed that she is quite alarming”
“We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.”
“I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.”

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