#mount

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#comes #ever #reveal #thought #unexpectedly

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?' ↗

— Wes Borland

#ah #always #around #band #because

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#clearer #contribute #day #everest #happened

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#characters #choose #else #everyone #fair

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#character #create #details #huge #i

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#environment #every #every time #forest #i

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#culture #heartless #immoral #our #regrettable

I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean, fresh air is great. Plus, it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs. ↗

— Chris Evert

#aspen #breathing #cardiovascular #clean #firms

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune. ↗

— Edie Falco

#amount #embarrassing #fortune #general #good

Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them. ↗

— Edie Falco

#being #friends #help #i #kids