Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Hillary

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Is there any peace/ In ever climbing up the climbing wave?

Cleve Touchberry

We've got a lot of work to do. We're starting much farther down the ladder than we have in the past and we're not climbing as quick as we have. They are working harder than I've seen to try to get over that hill.

Doug Scott

Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

Steve Fossett

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Stephen Covey

If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

Stanislaw Lem

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Miguel de Cervantes

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Ted Turner

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

Brett Ratner

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Brenda Lee

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

Jane Goodall

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

Alan Lightman

You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Arianna Huffington

Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

Daniel Handler

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

Archie Shepp

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Cameron Diaz

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Ethics to me is very important.

Miley Cyrus

Even when you're acting, you still need to be true to yourself because you don't want to put on a show for the rest of your life. It is a hard way to the top, but it is also very easy to come back down as well. Also, it is really important to keep yourself rested, and whenever you need a break, take a break.

Anton Chekhov

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

Bela Lugosi

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Demetri Martin

Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.