Chairlift Quotes

#1. Holly slides off the chairlift like a gymnast, and I slide off like a sack of hammers.

David Mitchell

#2. I would see her floating away from me, celestial and solitary, in an ethereal chairlift, up and up, to a glittering summit where laughing athletes stripped to the waist were waiting for her, for her.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.

Colum McCann

#4. No sir. The first thing is character.

J. P. Morgan

#5. The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

Lauren Bacall

#6. Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

Richard Steele

#7. If the CEO doesn't see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.

Steve Ballmer

#8. My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.

Bode Miller

#9. The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.

Brad Templeton

#10. Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

Howard Coble

#11. From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

George Orwell

#12. You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the whole ... You only notice the guitar when it's not there

Freddie Green

#13. Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to do.

Neil Gaiman

#14. He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

Derek Jacobi

#15. Republicans now have their own network in Fox, so guys who don't like to answer questions, like Trent Lott, have a place to go to hit softballs.

James Carville

#16. Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

Anne Lamott