Quotes of Stack - somelinesforyou

“ Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?". ”

- Joan Manley

“ That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Because it's there. ”

- George Leigh Mallory

“ I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band. ”

- Rick Moranis

“ Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded. ”

- Vicente Fox

“ I looked at his voting record, and it's considerably to the left of mine. And I don't consider myself a hard right conservative. So Rick is a classic Northeastern moderate Republican. ”

- Mitch McConnell

“ Over the hills and far away. ”

- John Gay

“ Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy. ”

- Kinky Friedman

“ An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. ”

- Siddha Nagarjuna

“ Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills. ”

- Dolly Parton

“ He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment. ”

- Ivern Ball

“ You cannot see the mountain near. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ”

- Al Neuharth

“ But you have to realize that it doesn't matter how your films are going to stack up against other people's. You have to stop whining about it and just get to work. Just do it. Because in the work is your existence. That's what you're here for. ”

- Martin Scorsese

“ There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean. ”

- Robert Forster

“ It is a movie of such unrelieved genteelness that it makes one long to head for Schrafft's for a double-gin martini, straight up, and a stack of cinnamon toast from which the crusts have been removed. ”

- Vincent Canby

“ The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion. ”

- Douglas Hofstadter

“ Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us. ”

- Unknown
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