Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

Kevin Jorgeson

It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.

Mark Twain

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Mark Twain

Experience comes from bad judgment.

Nikki Giovanni

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

Mitch Daniels

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

Mark Udall

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

Joseph Roth

The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

Andrew Flintoff

The lads are desperate to win. It is a mountain to climb now but they want to do it and so do I.

The ladder of success can not be climb with your hands in your pocket.

Lewis Thomas

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

Marcus Aurelius

Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

Kelly Preston

I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.

Paul Theroux

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

George Leigh Mallory

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

Joe Biden

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Joyce Carol Oates

I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.

Heidi Klum

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

Jimmy Webb

In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

Lucas Till

Life's a climb, but the view's great.

Lord Byron

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

Jim Perrin

They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

Marit Bjorgen

You don't feel it's the Olympic Games because there are not a lot of people. You want to feel a lot of people on the last climb to help you. It's a little disappointing there aren't a lot of people here.

You don't want a new team owner to think he has to climb Mount Everest to have a winning team. Not everybody can climb Mount Everest.

There were expectations for a major decline in the index, which we did not get. If you look at the two components (present and future expectations), it suggests going forward that confidence may actually start to climb again.

Richard Nelson

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

It (requires) just a computer. You can do it remotely. You don't have to go out in the rain and climb a telephone pole anymore.

Steven Gerrard

At half-time I thought it was a mountain to climb but we did it,

Dave Tippett

It's a big hill but big hills have been climbed before.

It was a remarkable climb down by the king, and overall we must be happy with this. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be looking at the various problems which need to be addressed.

Tommy Caldwell

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.

Tommy Caldwell

I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have.

Joe Sakic

We know how tough the division's going to be. These are all four-point games, especially this time of year. I didn't realize what our record was in the Northwest, but as long as we keep winning and climbing that's the most important thing.