Steep Canyon Quotes

#1. In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

Steve Martin

#2. It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Valentino Rossi

#3. Leaning forward, he set out to conquer Miss Henrietta Barrett the same way he'd conquered women across Britain.
Simply by being himself.

Julia Quinn

#4. Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven; the brightest oriole fades into leaves.

Annie Dillard

#5. You might plan how you sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planer, he who plans out to wake up is a Dreamer.

Amen Muffler

#6. Life is short and the number of books is appalling.

John Cowper Powys

#7. I think there will be linkages between the U.S. and Europe and I think there will be linkages between the U.S. and Asia; that is probably a little further off.

John Thain

#8. If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

Terence McKenna

#9. Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

Bertrand Russell

#10. When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

Marlee Matlin

#11. I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.

Richard Tuttle

#12. Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

Jim Crace

#13. I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of super steep hills and flat areas. He's always running ahead, which helps me push myself, especially up the hills.

Ana Ortiz

#14. I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

Bruce Jenner

#15. Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

Cal Ripken Jr.