#valley

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#deepest #ever #highest #highest mountain #how

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? ↗

— Edward Norton

#fernando #fields #flying #get #heartbroken

There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#career #everyone #few #few people #hard

It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#area #bay #bay area #been #brew

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#had #hills #how #i #know

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn’t change her looks. She’d never be six feet tall. She’d never look like a supermodel. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#superficiality #supermodels #sweet-valley #worthless #change

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#capitalism #corporations #dam #economics #environmental-degradation

She imagined herself whirling breathlessly beneath the flashing lights of some impossibly chic Manhattan disco. Suddenly, a hand touches her arm. She turns. ‘Pardon me,’ Mick Jagger says, 'I believe this next dance is mine. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#daydreaming #disco #mick-jagger #sweet-valley #imagination

If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#across #beautiful #each #exactly #four

There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality. ↗

— Bryan White

#anything #bring #business #downs #especially