Mounting Quotes
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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight.
conrad black— Black, Conrad et al, "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record...", 1969 : Despite Black's involvement in press ownership, he heaped scorn on journalism
In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork". For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit". Very.
edsger w. dijkstra— Dijkstra (1994) "The strengths of the academic enterprise" (EWD 1175)
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath,The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death;Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare,They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
Alexander Pope— Line 131.
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
aaron sorkin— The West Wing, Season Two Commentary Track: Noel.
The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!
epes sargent— Sunrise at Sea.
This island rock in space turns flowering endlessly To peaks of cloud still mounting where you took Your last high passage and your faltering luck.
— 1947 'Elegy for Kurt Porjescz, Missing in Action,1 April,1945'.
And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti— 1870 Poems,'The Blessed Damozel', stanza 7.
'Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seeme' d always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Ulysses Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Tennyson— 1832 Poems,'The Lotos-Eaters', l.1-6.
...the news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting legal weapons really, they don't just gag the press, they gag them from mentioning the existence of the gag. Sport belongs in a news bulletin about as much as a mummified cat's head belongs in a Caesar salad. Combine the "mounting pressure" with the "growing cause" and you've got yourself a "media whirlwind" which you can also refer to.
charlie brooker— Newswipe, Season 2 Episode 5
Around her, lovers, newly met'Mid deathless love's acclaims,Spoke evermore among themselvesTheir heart-remember'd names;And the souls mounting up to GodWent by her like thin flames.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti— Stanza 7.
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition!
nathaniel parker willis— Nathaniel Parker Willis, Parrhasius.
Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go? Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day, Festively she puts forth in trim array.
william wordsworth— Where Lies the Land, l. 1 (1806).
Well, that's a judgment that you are making. I promise you that if you look at it from outside, and perhaps you're taking rather a parochial view at the moment, I don't think that other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos.
james callaghan— Response to Evening Standard reporter's question "What is your general approach, in view of the mounting chaos in the country at the moment?", 10 January 1979; used to justify The Sun headline "Crisis? What Crisis?" on 11 January.
Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.
carl jung— p. 125 (Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933))
No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Pastorals, Winter, line 53.
