Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Honnold

If you're climbing big routes that'll take you 16 hours, or, like, El Capitan, you have to take something like a big, robust sandwich. Climbing isn't like running or triathlons, where you have to constantly be eating blocks, gels, and pure sugar. Climbing is relatively slow, so you can pretty much eat anything and digest it as you climb.

Todd Bertuzzi

I haven't been myself out there, ... I haven't been playing my game. Things happen, but good people get through tough situations. You got to keep climbing and keep building. The only thing you can really say is that we're winning. We got other guys doing the job while a couple of us are not on the top of our games. It's good to see because it shows how much depth we have on our team and how everyone is moving forward here.

I walk to stay in shape for mountain climbing and to spend precious time with my wife.

It was profit-taking, that's all. There's no other reason. There's also a little less volume, which shows we're not in climbing mode any more.

It's quickly climbing up to the top. We can move into regions with saltier soils and colder springs. It's already popular and demand for it will only continue.

Tommy Amaker

It's obvious that we need to continue to take steps climbing the ladder. We are moving our program in the direction where we're going to be very proud. We're maturing and more than anything else, you see the confidence growing. That's the key word for us.

Michael Hawley

Instead of guiding up other people, they are climbing for science. This year, there's going to be a tremendous gush of data coming off the mountain.

Ozzie Newsome

I guess you could say it's like climbing a mountain. You just start climbing.

Climbing is a social sport. A lot of people like to just sit around and talk. A lot of gyms have cliques that have formed, but we try to stay away from that.

Climbing Everest is not cheap. It's been an uphill battle. But, for an Everest climb that is appropriate.

J. Cole

Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.. So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop

Friedrich Nietzsche

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

Galen Rowell

We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

Galen Rowell

When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.

Franz Kafka

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Elizabeth Banks

I really find that when I get on an airplane, I never drink anything but water, and I drink a ton of it. I like to sit in the window, but I'm always climbing over people to go to the bathroom. I'm that seatmate. But ya gotta do it. All about the water.

Investors have been climbing a wall of worry because the nation's inventories of gasoline have declined in recent weeks.

Investors have been climbing a wall of worry because of uncertainties about political stability in Iraq and saber-rattling in Iran. Those worries have sent crude oil futures to record levels and gasoline has followed.

He's just a fantastic little bear. He's climbing all over his cage.

Ingmar Bergman

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment.

The OPEC demand revision is more of a reminder than anything else. Between the high level of crude stocks and the downward revisions to demand, the price should have trouble climbing like it has done this week.

While housing prices and margins may be climbing to stratospheric levels, it is important to recognize that they are still climbing and driving earnings higher,

Rather than being a risk-taker as such, I consider myself and my climbing peers to be risk-controllers, and we just enjoy being in this situation and keeping risk at a reasonable level.

They're all climbing the ladder (toward a state championship).

These are the games you have to win. We've got to start climbing the ladder back into a playoff spot and get better in our division.

It's a real shame because Jessica pitched well enough to win. It seems like we keep climbing the ladder and then take a few steps down just when we are close to the top. We never made the proper adjustments at the plate and don't seem to understand defensively what we need to do to just get out of the inning.

Jeanne Moreau

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

Frances Perkins

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

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.

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.