I wish I could pick and choose, but for some reason I'm not built that way, and I can never anticipate when I will react with such intensity in a world that is full to the mountain tops and down to the sea floors with life and death and joy and suffering.
For we ants shuffling up the platform, it was almost as if Moses had become an independent financial adviser, and had come down from the mountain top with some very sound tips about regular savings.
Coming from that mountain top back down to training at 6am, getting back on the board, was difficult.
Demystifying the historical figures of the past, pulling them off the great mountain top back down to Earth where they shat, farted, spit, pissed, fucked, raped, murdered, died, and rotted seems like important business for this country.
"Coyote goes to the mountain top / Looks over down at the river, says, 'What a drop.'" OK.
On the morning of February 23rd 1945 in Iwo Jima a flag was raised on the mountain top but it came down.
Mike's favorite quote: "The job of a sports columnist is to observe the battle from the mountain top and then ride down and bayonet the wounded".
For 16 days Royal Marines trudged from mountain top to mountain top without finding a single terrorist.
The clouds that often mass on the mountain top and tumble down the sides are known, of course, as the Tablecloth.
After flying for 15 minutes to half an hour through pristine, awe-inspiring white mountains, the guide, with help from the skiers, will pick out a mountain top or slope to set down on.
In the organic shop on the edge of the village, a couple of civil servants from Nice were just down from the mountain top, enthusing about the weird sensations: how their compass went haywire, the strange cloud formations "in the shape of a wide-toothed comb".
