Peaks Quotations

The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.

I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily.

Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'

'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.

There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way.

The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.

We were better. We played competitively. There just were too many peaks and valleys against a team that good. We improved, but we still don't have everything ironed out yet.

What we learned from Ivan is that it usually peaks six or seven days after the storm as more people return home and start making repairs.

We have had a great deal of precipitation, but the variable warming and cooling trends has made it so some of the snow has melted, so we have already had some fairly high peaks in the water flows.

There are a lot of companies that go through seasonally strong and weak periods, but (their stocks) don't necessarily perform better or worse during these peaks and valleys.

When the market is good, you have a lot of creative approaches to real estate. But, I have been in the business for 34 years, and you see a lot of peaks and valleys.

My group has skied off peaks in Russia, Norway, Lebanon and Sicily. And they're coming off the mountain here saying they've had possibly the best runs of their life.

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

I'm a student of conservation history and what I see are cycles, ... The trend over time has been a broader level of conservation and concern. But there are peaks and valleys. We had tremendous environmental activism under Theodore Roosevelt, then went through a drought in the '20s. We had another resurgence in conservation interest in the '30s, hit a lull in the '50s, then had a highly active period in the '60s and '70s. We're in one of those down periods again, but I'm as certain as I can be that we're getting to the end of this period and headed toward a new era of conservation and concern.

He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find, The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below

He doesn't go through the peaks and valleys that some people would. He just has an easy-going attitude.

We told our kids at halftime that football is a game of peaks and valleys. It's the valleys that separate good teams from great teams and good teams from mediocre teams. I think our kids showed character and responded when we needed them to.

Historically, peaks in the U.S. rate cycle combined with rising equity volatility and a moderation in earnings momentum all signal U.S. equity performance.

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

I thought we went in fits and starts. We went in peaks and valleys during the game and we made good plays and we made soft plays, and I think that over time we are going to have to get firmer in those areas.

I think this season was such a good one because it was a reflection of life. Life's going to have peaks and valleys. If you can stay in between ? not let your highs be too high or lows be too low ? you can survive. That's just life.

It is important to note that after receiving the flu shot, it takes two weeks to build immunity against the flu. Flu season typically peaks in late January or early February.

Jennifer and Erika had an amazing race. Erika always peaks around this time of year.

Peaks indicated times of intense speculation and troughs indicated times of low interest in the market, when speculation was not high on people's agenda.

Peak hunting periods coincide with dry season drought months, as vegetation is less dense and wildlife searching for watering holes are easier to hunt and locate. Hence supply peaks during times of hardship and constitutes an important drought and famine coping strategy for the majority in the rural areas surveyed.

Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.

Some of the higher peaks I would imagine could see 2 1/2 feet.

I think I was too drained by then to get too high. All of us were pretty drained. There was a lot of emotion. I've never seen a game quite like that. There were as big a peaks and as big a valleys as you could have. It was as good a football game as I've ever been involved in.

We need a mind shift to looking beyond the valley to the peaks ahead. We have to look at the history of the nation after it's faced other horrible disasters. We always come back bigger and better.

We just collapsed over those last six holes. We started out poorly, played really well for a long stretch, then finished poorly. We seem to go through peaks and valleys as a team rather than just as individuals.

We are becoming battle tested. A season is a long hard process, with peaks and valleys, I think we are working our way up the mountain again and hopefully our best basketball lies ahead.

Whether you're on the budget bill or not, you're going to pay the same amount of money over the long term for your natural gas. Being on the budget bill takes out those peaks and valleys that you'd otherwise see.

We have some really good young players. And they're coming and getting better everyday. The more guys you have producing the better your team is going to be. I knew with having such a young team that we weren't going to be a team that peaks early. We are still in a learning process and we are getting better. That's why I'm excited about this team down the stretch. Our group still has a lot of room for improvement.

We had lot of peaks and valleys. We've been fairly consistent. It's a credit to our coaches and the football team to step it up. We're in a prime position that a lot of people didn't think we would be in.

We need to keep our focus for 40 minutes and we're not doing that right now. A basketball game is all about ups and downs, peaks and valleys, and we can't have so many deep valleys.

You have peaks and valleys. At the end, after you've handled everything you need to handle in those valleys, you come back up in those peaks. We're at one of the peaks right now.

We did some real good things. We had some peaks and valleys all through the tournament, but overall, it's something our program can be proud of and work for the future.

There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall the trend is good,

We want to avoid peaks and valleys and play with more consistent effort all the time. Tonight was a little bit closer to how we want to play.

With a very young team we need to be prepared for the peaks of the previous game and the valleys of this defeat.

When you have a guy with experience, he doesn't get rattled. He had great composure, and he's gotten away from the peaks and valleys.

Explore the red planet in three different ways: an elevation map shows color-coded peaks and valleys, a visible-imagery map shows what your eyes would actually see, and an infrared-imagery map shows the detail your eyes would miss. We hope you enjoy your trip to Mars.

We've been pretty consistent. We've played pretty well all year without having a lot of peaks and valleys, which has been encouraging.

We seem to have high peaks and low points, but more systems always seem to be coming in.

We've had more peaks and valleys in the consistency of our play this year than, I think, any other. If we can have a stretch where we put another six, seven games in a row together here, where we've played like we have over the last 10 days or so, we could be there.

What concerns me is the unevenness . You have peaks and valleys in median income throughout the state.

We expect that it (water) will continue to rise for some weeks more before it actually peaks and then begins to decline.

At the forefront for me this year is staying consistent every week and avoiding the peaks and valleys. I want to be a rock for the offense each week so my teammates know what to expect for me, just doing my job.

Flatulence peaks twice a day... five hours after lunch and five hours after dinner.

The shares have hit these recent peaks because it's probable some investors have some details on the (privatization) transaction that haven't been made available to the market yet.

Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.

After 20 years, it's emotional. Andre and the tournament are so interconnected. He helped keep the sport going when we had kind of peaks and valleys. When Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe left, up popped Andre and Pete Sampras.

And the answer is it is, but it's also a difficult road to go on. There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall, the trend is good. We're certainly confident. And the most important thing we're confident about is that the Iraqis want to do this. They want to take the fight. They will take the fight.

A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can't just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.

As expected, consumer tax revenue is only slightly above last year's level, ... This is because we continue to see an increasing portion of our tax growth coming in our third quarter. More customers are using our Web-based tax solutions, which historically have revenue peaks later in the season.

The busy season around here is now 12 months a year instead of just tax-season months. By increasing our base of nonprofit clients, it has smoothed out the yearly peaks and valleys that most CPA firms have.

You might find him stuck in a tree in his backyard, pruning branches, creating new paths on Peaks Island.

They say that women's sexual peaks are in their 30s or 40s, and I think that it happens because they're more comfortable. It's not some hormonal change that happens at that age. Of course, it would be nice to have more physiological insight on that.

They're having peaks and valleys, but by and large they're incredibly happy. We love these girls dearly.

They're on the right track for subscriber growth, ... But more importantly, they're starting to focus now on getting more money out of each subscriber. So one of the tricky things will be to get people to stop focusing purely on subscriber growth and start thinking more about revenue per subscriber. They've got their own sort of gathering area for shopping for e-commerce, for Christmas time. Remember e-commerce season starts now with back-to-school and peaks with Christmas. This is going to be a time of a lot of excitement in the Internet space and we think AOL is well positioned to take advantage of that.

It was definitely touch-and-go for a little while. There were a number of band summit meetings trying to save the record. The creative process this time, not to sound cliched, went through peaks and valleys. And without the valleys, you can't appreciate the peaks.

I told them before the (Providence) game started, every team that I've ever coached that was consistently good had seniors that were very, very consistent. And it's time now for this group to kind of separate themselves and say, 'Hey, it's time for me to have an impact every single game and not be in those peaks and valleys.' I think they've all kind of made that progression.

I told them before the game that we're going to have peaks and valleys, and just don't get too hung up on yourself when we're at the peak and don't get too down on yourself when we're in the valley. We could have folded there at the start of the fourth quarter, but we came out hard, moved the ball well and got some nice shots.

It's been an emotional roller coaster at times. There have been some peaks and valleys. But I'm very confident and anxious to see how it turns out.

It's sports oriented. And you have the extreme of 2,600-foot peaks and the lake water. Everything fits.

I want the team to stay focused and concentrate on staying consistent. We don't want to have peaks and valleys, and we'll take one game at a time, instead of looking ahead.

They were so big, that we were taking off on different ends - long peaks - and you're just passing each other in opposite directions.

They have to start earning money, and that is the point when you can judge what they are worth. These companies which have lost $100 off their peaks could lose another $100 and they still wouldn't be cheap.

It was a game of peaks and valleys and fortunately we were at the winning side at the end.

I'm surprised at everything that's in this little area. I've been hiking through lots of high peaks in Colorado, but this is more beautiful than all of them.

If Rahman is released or found to be mentally unstable or if this is one-time deal making, what we have is not universal freedom of conscience, but government benevolence. It peaks and valleys depending on how winds are blowing.

If you look at the new products and consumer interest, they generally peak quickly and decline eventually. Over the last 15 years, organics has just continued to increase a little all the time. It never had the fashionable peaks of those other fads.

If you saw us two weeks ago, you would have said we weren't very good either. I think you just have to keep battling. Every season is going to have peaks and valleys. Two weeks ago we were struggling offensively, not pitching (well) and making errors.

I think all teams change throughout the year. You go through dips and peaks and valleys. Ours are more accentuated than most it seems. I think our basketball team has changed, and certainly James Madison has changed as well.

His consistency is amazing. All first-year players seem to have some peaks and valleys to their game, and Alex is able to continue to play well.

His goal is to place at state. That's not unreasonable. I think it's something that is within his grasps. If he pursues it and peaks here soon.

Charlie got this sly look on his face, ... And then he said, 'I want you to put my ashes on all the original 315 peaks I climbed.'

He's a pretty even-keel kid. He's going to be a guy who can stay away from the peaks and valleys. That's a big advantage in this game. His personality suits his position well.

Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so softly are soon lost in the dark primaeval forests, with their peaks of rosy granite and their stretches of granite blocks piled and poised by nature in some mood of fury.

The market in general is not anywhere near the peaks it hit during the end of the bubble.

This is a great thing for me. I wanted to be a tournament fisherman and I have been lucky to be able to do that for a living. There have been peaks and valleys and some frustration when I had poor years in tournaments, but overall it has worked out well. I really couldn't ask for more.

This has had a lot of fits and starts and peaks and valleys. It's certainly been worth it.

The guy has power, there's no question about it, ... The peaks and valleys, that's going to be the decision on Carlos Pena. Are we getting to a point where we're getting more consistent? I would say that I'm seeing some signs, sure. That's why I want to see this all the way to the end. I wouldn't want to see a total dropoff myself.

The greater challenge, however, is to meet the target of approximately 3,000 workers when the project peaks next year. We are working feverishly towards that.

All the time when you play a good ball team, there's ups and downs, peaks and valleys.