Famous Quotes & Sayings

That last hill was the hardest hill to climb and I think we might have worn out with only seven guys at the moment. We have a reputation as a run and gun team. But the seven guys have been working very hard on being patient and it paid off.

It's nice to climb back in this Pac-10 race.

Everybody was expecting this hurricane to be one of biblical proportions and that oil prices were going to climb sharply. As the storm weakened, oil prices retreated and demand for stocks rebounded.

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

Steve Squyres

That's no Mt. Everest, but it's a heck of a climb for our little rover. When we first touched down at Gusev Crater on Jan. 4, 2004, the Columbia Hills looked impossibly far away.

Steve Squyres

That's no Mt. Everest, but it's a heck of a climb for our little rover, ... When we first touched down at Gusev Crater on Jan. 4, 2004, the Columbia Hills looked impossibly far away.

Joseph Conrad

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chris Hardwick

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

Frances Perkins

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Paul Tibbets

I wanted to climb in and fly it,

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

I've had a productive season when some players out there have been struggling. I've climbed a few rungs of the ladder and I'm still enjoying it, so I haven't got anything to moan about.

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.