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.

Brian Jacques

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Cesar Milstein

I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."

Catherine Ponder

It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.

Kate Micucci

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

Arthur C. Clarke

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

Blaise Pascal

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Stephen Jay Gould

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

Wu Dawei

a process of all six parties overcoming one mountain after another, one wall after another.

Wu Dawei

a process of all six parties overcoming one mountain after another.

Kevin Kamps

Yucca Mountain is such a mistake. There needs to be more research done on the alternatives.

Carl von Clausewitz

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Baltasar Gracian

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

Craig Kelly

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

Brent Weeks

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

Bob Iger

Though our mountain may be slightly smaller in scale to the one you find in Asia, it is remarkable in its authenticity.

Donald Miller

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.