(10 quotes found)
“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“Sirens are not a good option, especially with our topography.”
Herb Thomas
“This site screamed out for a house . It's such a marvelous location ... from the topography of the site, to the shape of the site, everything said to me: This is where I should try and build a house. We have the river; we have the marvelous rice terraces which we can see from our decks.”
Martin Smyth
“This is a program-driven park rather than an athletically driven park. The topography of the site naturally lends itself as a gathering place for programs.”
Jim Eby
“We are in the center of something here. We're singularly blessed because of our topography. That is not to say that there aren't other places where people farm well, eat seasonally and don't expect ... strawberries in December!”
Jil Hales
“[Any rebuilding plan, specialists say, should take New Orleans' topography and frequent rains into account.] You can bring the city back without making it any safer, ... You want to avoid that.”
John Rennie
“This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An earthquake is bad anywhere, in the Himalayas it becomes much worse,”
Jan Egeland
“The thing that sets MacDonald Highlands apart is the topography. It's steeper there, so you can get true hillside homes.”
Larry Murphy
“We're not using any other external factors to trigger differentiation. The topography we have developed is enough.”
Matthew Dalby
“I bought a topography program which allows us to map the roads and see the changes in elevation and distances, just so we could plan out how tough the days were really going to be.”
Dave Benyo