Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Leigh Mallory

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

George Leigh Mallory

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

Gordon Janow

For many climbers, Everest is usually a one-time deal,

Edmund Hillary

As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how.

Jon Krakauer

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

Edmund Hillary

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

Michael Ward

Every mountain has at least one way up it, ... We reckoned there must be a route up Everest from Nepal.

Abdul Latif

To my knowledge, the Malaysians who have seen Everest have only seen its South Face. We may have been the first Malaysians to have reached the North Face,

Liu Qi

The torch will also go to the top of Mount Everest as it is known in the west. This has never been done before.

Madeleine Quayat

I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.

Ramsey Clark

has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.

Thomas R. Insel

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

Bob Henderson

I think it's a very serious matter. In fact, it's known that it's a serious matter when you take some communications that you were supposed to have.

Subodh Kumar

It is not known whether the passengers are safe or have been robbed.

Nicola Sturgeon

It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.

Lori Walker

Last year is over and done with and we've known that for nine months.

E. Hicks

We may never find it. It may be on the top of another mountain by now.

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Umberto Eco

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

Rick Danko

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Rich Mullins

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.

Walter Benjamin

I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.

W. S. Merwin

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

Zig Ziglar

You can't climb a smooth mountain

Cynthia Morgan

Respondents in the mountain states -- where self-employed technologists are proportionately rare -- were the most optimistic, regionally.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Robert Townsend

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Tyra Banks

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Martha Stewart

The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.

Winston Churchill

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

Mel Brooks

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Leonard Cohen

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

Ato Boldon

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

Carl Lewis

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation,

Angela Ruggiero

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Rosanne Cash

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

George Bernard Shaw

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Burn Gorman

I had a great time doing Torchwood, I really did.