Holy Mountain Quotes

#1. She loved everything around, turquoise blue sky and calm sea, and the holy mountain, and fragrant woods on it, and monasteries and hermitages, and herbs, and flowers, and monks and pilgrims, and children. And him? She asked herself and almost said "yes" inwardly...

Osyp Nazaruk

#2. There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.

Robert Byron

#3. 'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#4. The only time we can attract a crowd is for some pilgrimage up some god-damned holy mountain to chase the snakes and banshees out of the country.

Leon Uris

#5. George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#6. From deep quiet gorges and wilderness of the holy mountain came to her wonderful, like silver mist, dreams and silently whispered into her ears that she was designed for extraordinary deeds.

Osyp Nazaruk

#7. Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?

Kahlil Gibran

#8. In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

Dan Simmons

#9. You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#10. They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

James Russell Lowell

#11. Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Jim Butcher

#12. It was a nephilim."
"A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled.
"Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time.

Richelle Mead

#13. It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality.

Richard Brautigan

#14. [I]t's seeing the invisible problem, not just the obvious problem, that's important, not just for product design, but for everything we do. You see, there are invisible problems all around us, ones we can solve. But first we need to see them, to feel them. - T

Bernadette Jiwa

#15. O happy, happy each
man whom predestined fate
leads to the holy rite
of hill and mountain worship.

Hilda Doolittle

#16. Prayer has mighty power to move mountains because the Holy Spirit is ready both to encourage our praying and to remove the mountains hindering us.

Wesley L. Duewel

#17. I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

Keith Olbermann

#18. Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)

William Henry Jackson

#19. And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

William Blake

#20. Who am I to tell a man to live? Who am I to claim the powers of the Ancestors? I moved aside so the shawman could have more room to do his holy work. He's climbed the Scared Mountain and seen the face of the Ancestors. I have no place beside him. -Dashti

Shannon Hale

#21. Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

Erik Reece

#22. It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.

Orson Scott Card