Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Dickey

All day I climb myself bowlegged up those damned poles, rooster-heeled, in all kinds of weather

Philip Roth

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

Schwarzenegger has huge problems. But other governors have climbed out of the poll pits to win re-election.

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.

Chelsea Cain

People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.

Michael James

The Nasdaq is up on the day, primarily due to Apple. This market is climbing a wall of worries. People are too committed to equities in the longer term.

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.

Steven Gerrard

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

Roger Clemens

As soon as I climbed on the mound, I was lost a little bit, ... I knew I had to gather it up pretty quick and get through that.

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.

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.

It's not like they have walls to climb over in order to vote.

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.

Richard Nelson

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

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.

Stirling Moss

The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.

Steve House

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Samina Baig

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

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.

T. S. Eliot

Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

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.

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.

Ever since I was a junior in high school I have been climbing and I always go at least once a week. It's tons of fun and you can meet new people. Rock climbing is a great way to stay in shape, especially for college students.

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.