Top 19 Great Basin Quotes
#1. I had come to appreciate the long open stretches of two-lane highway across the sagey sea and mountain-studded plateau of the Great Basin, but the towns and cities were another thing. I liked the natural face of Nevada, but was not as impressed by the human face.
Neil Peart
#2. My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.
Jesse Ventura
#4. The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.
Emil M. Cioran
#5. I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.
Sheena Easton
#6. When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.
Francois Fenelon
#7. It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#8. A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
Francois Truffaut
#9. Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.
Hugh Hefner
#10. Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
George Bernard Shaw
#11. One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.
Hudson Stuck
#13. That's the way it is. The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die
Robert M. Pirsig
#14. I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.
Andrew Wylie
#16. There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.
Robert Crais
#18. Look," he said. "We'd like you to return the salary." "Oh, is that all?" I said. "Heck. That's easy. The answer is no." "What?" "No." "No?" "What part of that two-letter word don't you understand, Brad?" I asked. "Was it the vowel that threw you, or the consonant ?
John Scalzi
#19. May the surprises in your lives always be good ones.
And may the people in your lives treat you kindly and fairly.
And may the choices and sacrifices you make in your lives be the right ones for you.
May you be blessed in every way, and happy in your lives.
Danielle Steel
