#mount

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#amount #composers #develop #expect #goodly

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#churches #favorite #great #happily #i

I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#better #bike #biking #body #gym

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#bitterness #certain #fire #much #someone

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#monuments #mountains

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?' ↗

— Ian Hislop

#away #confidence #ebbs #huge #i

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#amount #biggest #disorder #far #far less

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#addicted #climbing #environment #extraordinary #i

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#certain #climbing #did #every #filmed

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#considering #evil #faith #feel #get