Escarpments Quotes

#1. He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone. In the distance spiky, chocolate-brown mountains floated on eerie pools of mirage.

Jon Krakauer

#2. I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

John Steinbeck

#3. 'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Wesley Morris

#4. The past in an interpretation. The future is an illusion.

Elif Shafak

#5. If you don't? Well, I'm no longer inclined to believe the marriage's failure will be your fault." "Why's that?" "Because you're in love with him." Patrick

Leta Blake

#6. 'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

David Mitchell

#7. Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.

Aubrey C. Daniels

#8. We believe in a strong dollar ... Chinese financial assets are very safe.

Timothy Geithner

#9. He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip.
He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#10. This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden.

David James Duncan

#11. I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Dinaw Mengestu

#12. When we try to drill and practice someone into subservient obedience, we're stamping out the artist that lives within.

Seth Godin

#13. If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all about acting. It's not about the voice. The voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.

Bob Bergen

#14. I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

Marcia Cross

#15. Life is not about how others see it; it is about how you feel it, how you approach it and how you play it, Be bold,be different and be you. Forget how people expect you to play it out; it is your game, your rules.

Kieran Jamie Lee