“Survive without calcification of the tender membranes.” - Tennessee Williams
“The sooty bulk of the mountain paled slowly until it was the same color as the smoke from Ennis’s breakfast fire. The cold air sweetened, banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil-long shadows and the rearing lodgepole pines below them massed in slabs of somber malachite.” Annie Proulx, from the novel Brokeback Mountain
“You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.” - Wallace Stegner, from the novel Angle of Repose
“Maybe the Milky Way is a gigantic record, and your life is like the needle.” - Blaze Foley, from the film Blaze
“People think I’m disciplined. It’s not discipline, it’s devotion, and there’s a great difference.” - Luciano Pavarotti
“How can you trust a man that wears both a belt and suspenders? He can’t even trust his own pants.” - Frank, played by Henry Fonda, in the film Once Upon a Time in the West
