#hill

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#gets #goes #rid #society #troublemakers

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be. ↗

— Jack Black

#hills #how #movie #music #nailed

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#chill #environment #feet #ground #heart

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#chills #creates #deny #discretion #existence

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#british #churchill #entirely #his #indian

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#haunting #hill #house #i #read

As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there. ↗

— James Durbin

#how #i #judges #just #presence

Just then he noticed that Amy had that look, as though she wanted the street to buckle and split so she could fall right in. Dan saw the cool crowd from her school hanging at a table in the front. So that was why she didn't want to go in. Evan Tolliver was at the head of the table. Dan sighed. Even, the human supercomputer, was Amy's dream crush. Whenever Evan was near, she got her stutter back. "Oh, excuse me, I didn't notice Luke Skywalker," Dan said. "Or is it Darth Vader?" "Shhh," Amy said. Her cheeks were red. "He's coming." "You mean Evan Tolliver himself is about to set his foot on the sidewalk? Did you bring the rose petals?" "Cut it out, dweeb!" Amy said fiercely. "Hi, Amy," Evan said from behind her. Amy's color went from summer rose to summer tomato. She shot Dan a look that told him he was in serious trouble. "Hey, Evan," he said. "I'm Amy's little brother, Dweeb. Nice to meet you, man. ↗

— Jude Watson

#dan-cahill #evan-tolliver #the #dreams

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#course #even #give #got #hope

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#blues #cast #ensemble #gave #hill