Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Johnson

At this point, he's radioactive. The only reason that he might get drafted, honestly, is because he's Mike Vick's kid brother, and that Mike might have enough of an influence on him that he might become a productive NFL player. But it's sure going to be an uphill climb for him now.

At the time, we didn't think he had a real good voice, but he was flopping around like Daffy Duck. It was great. He was climbing up on stuff and rolling around. It was pretty cool.

Eldridge Cleaver

And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.

They still have such a steep mountain to climb with Lieberman still being very popular and Lamont starting out with so little recognition, which translates into a huge gap in the primary.

Johnny Damon

This is Boston. You're going to have roller coasters. We need to climb to the top.

Johnny Damon

This is Boston, ... You're going to have roller coasters. We need to climb to the top.

You don't get a rest before shooting. There's nowhere to take a break. People on TV will see it as a dinky little downhill before the shooting and think, 'Well, it's easy.' But you've just climbed up a kilometer up to there and you're totally wiped out by the time you get to the point.

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.

Lance Armstrong

It's a strange climb ... long but not very steep, so you can keep 30, 40, 50 guys, and they can take shots at you from the back.

Dave Tippett

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

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.

Herman Melville

There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty.

Henry David Thoreau

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Always continue to climb.

Jeremy Jones

What draws me to the type of snowboarding that I'm doing now is, I go through every emotion in life when I'm climbing these mountains. The fear. The anticipation before that. Getting to the top and the joy of standing on top, and then the adrenaline on going down, and then the kind of overwhelming emotions that I get at the bottom. That whole process is really addicting, and makes me feel alive.

Frances Perkins

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Chris Hardwick

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

He that will eat the fruit must climb the tree.

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.

As the house just filled up with water, it forced me into the attic, and then I ended up kicking out the wall and climbing up to a tree because the houses around me were just disappearing.

Sidney Crosby

Once we get rolling, we're going to be great, but it's a steep mountain to climb when you go through this, ... But it's better we get it out of the way now. If we keep working and start getting some bounces, we're going to be fine. If you work hard and keep creating, things usually go your way.

The team's strategy of upping the pace on the climb proved very important and then I could take over to finish off their work.

Paul Tibbets

I wanted to climb in and fly it,

Andy Pettitte

It was a little different for me here, because this just seemed like such a huge mountain to climb to be able to get to the World Series with the team that we have. I'm proud of the guys.

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As people get older, they lose interest in mountain climbing or skiing.