#mount

A trademark of something that works well, the cat body has hardly changed since its inception. Like with today's cats, their digestive systems could handle only flesh. The lesson of the cat is that if you are to become a full-fledged carnivore, you have to commit everything to it. A house cat fed vegetarian food will shrivel and die. ↗

— Craig Childs

#mountain-lion #wildlife #change

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#broken #changed #country #covered #direction

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back. ↗

— Les Aspin

#autonomy #back #certain #comfortable #feel

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion. ↗

— Peter Bart

#discussion #first #four #green-light #i

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#average #average person #decide #definitely #go

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping. ↗

— Kate Fox

#between #difference #found #little #little difference

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#any #asked #cottage #could #habitation

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#alone #centered #i #kinds #large

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#involved #overwhelming #travel

I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight - or gain it. I'm just being. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#being #craving #equal #gain #go