Canyons Quotes - Page 5

• bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP. only he didn't say "doggone.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wall, People, Flying

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.102, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

  Leonardo Drew

  Layers, Grand Canyon, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm addicted to exercise. I love going to the gym, but my absolute favorite is hiking in L.A., particularly Runyon Canyon. It's become my mental and physical salvation.

  Jonathan Keltz

  Exercise, Hiking, Salvation

  4 Copy quote

• I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.

  Adam Ross

  Goodbye, New York, Flower

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they'll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.

  Joni Mitchell

  California, America, People

  40 Copy quote

• The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not 'CO2' or 'climate' or 'temperature.' It's 'development.' [...] Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas.

  Alex Epstein

  Drinking, Oil, Differences

  9 Copy quote

• To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

  Alan Watts

  Beautiful, Depressing, Ocean

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.

  Norm MacDonald

  Children, Spring, Kids

  55 Copy quote

• You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse, in the middle of Canyon de Chelly, shooting a Western. That's a bit of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

  James Badge Dale

  Children, Sleep, Here I Am

  Source: collider.com

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Speaking of childhood fantasy, we were doing a Western, but we were also just hanging out. You work, and you ride and ride and ride, and then, for the next two hours, you look for a place to kick out, in this amazing canyon with so much heritage and so much history.

  James Badge Dale

  Two, Childhood, Next

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know why I just remembered this, and I haven't told anybody this, but we were shooting in Canyon de Chelly and we were so far up the canyon. Once we were up there, we were up there. There was no going back to your trailers.

  James Badge Dale

  Shooting, Trailers, Remembered

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The game is full of peaks and valleys, the key is to avoid the Grand Canyon.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Games, Keys, Valleys

  12 Copy quote

• I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I like Central Park better than the wilderness, and I like the canyons of Manhattan better than Central Park, and I like the interior of my apartment better than the canyons of Manhattan, and I like my two rooms better with the shades down at all times than with the shades up. I'm not an agoraphobe at all, but I am a claustrophile, if you see the distinction.

  Isaac Asimov

  Central Park, Two, Parks

  4 Copy quote

• Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Winning, Law, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].

  David Foreman

  Warrior, Rivers, Colorado River

  4 Copy quote

• I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, and Clover Canyon.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fashion, Lines, Peter

  4 Copy quote

• I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

  Freya Stark

  New York, Erosion, Sky

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

  Richard Brautigan

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Ideas, Alaska

  4 Copy quote

• I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.

  Paul Saffo

  Doors, Wish, Wildlife

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

  Fannie Hurst

  Want, Grand Canyon, Capture

  4 Copy quote

• Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Would Be, Looks, Crossings

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.199, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.

  Norman Maclean

  Summer, Memories, Thinking

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Generations, Gaps, Grand Canyon

  17 Copy quote

• I cruise the canyon to get some breeze With Hidden Treasures up my sleeve I like the light and hate the heat But I'll lick the blood right off your street

  Katy Rose

  Hate, Light, Blood

  Song: Overdrive, Album: Because I Can

  5 Copy quote

  Show source