Ellen Meloy Quotes

#1. I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.

Ellen Meloy

#2. Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.

Ellen Meloy

#3. If you are living in the electrified wireless west, then you are living a very abnormal lifestyle that your genetics has no adaptation to.

Steven Magee

#4. Breathing, it seemed to me, was a proper attribute for the mountains ... mountains that quietly functioned as a single thing with a rhythmic inhale-exhale I could feel ...

Ellen Meloy

#5. A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

Ellen Meloy

#6. Women get boob jobs to give themselves a certain edge. Frankly, I don't see why they nearly kill themselves trying to diet off their equally bulbous hips.

Kim Brittingham

#7. I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

Laura Schlessinger

#8. So Brandon, would you like to take... A POP QUIZ??!!

Rachel Renee Russell

#9. There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no reason to question their actions in a place that is merely backdrop.

Ellen Meloy

#10. Oblivion. It is what I am always looking for.

Bethany Griffin

#11. As an actor, that's the most that you can hope for - not only being part of a story, but being part of a story that matters.

Melissa Ponzio

#12. If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

Dick Ebersol

#13. To slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

Ellen Meloy

#14. Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

Ellen Meloy

#15. Drama drama drama. The public wants it, so let them get the whole ugly mess. Why not?

Elaine Stritch

#16. For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour
when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth.

Ellen Meloy

#17. Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

Erik Naggum

#18. After a few dates, he'd propose marriage over a bottle of wine.

Jude Deveraux

#19. I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Keith Miller

#20. A product is not a product unless it sells. Otherwise it is merely a museum piece.

Theodore Levitt

#21. The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes. "Say 'Nevermore,' " said Shadow. "Fuck you," said the raven. It said nothing else as they went through the woodland together.

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