Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Ovitz

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

Ted Turner

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Michael Crichton

The experience of climbing Kilimanjaro affected me so powerfully that, for a long time afterward, if I caught myself saying, "I'm not a person who likes to do that activity, eat that food, listen to that music," I would automatically go out and do what I imagined I didn't like. Generally I found I was wrong about myself - I liked what I thought I wouldn't like. And even if I didn't like the particular experience, I learned I liked having new experiences.

Highs today will climb into the middle and upper 80s. A few degrees shy of record highs, but needless to say, a warm day.

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

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

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.

Kevin Jorgeson

I don't want to be guy that almost climbed Dawn Wall.

Kevin Jorgeson

I climbed brick facades as a kid. You'd kind of stick your fingers in there.

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jeremy Piven

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

Gilberto Simoni

...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.

He ran out in the street and held his hands out and stopped the bus. He jumped on the hood and then climbed on the roof.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Always continue to climb.

I feel like I've worked hard but I've also been very fortunate. I have skipped a couple of steps in terms of climbing the ladder.

The computer told us to climb and we climbed right over them,

The flames were climbing up the walls. They were 15 to 20 feet high, ... Diapers don't smell good when they're burning.

David Rosenberg

The equity market is climbing a wall of worry right now.

Paul Houston

The hill will be higher for the school to climb than the kid.

You won't hear anything from me for a while. I am training really hard right now, but it's going to be a climb to get to where I want to go.

You've been climbing the ladder for 30 years, trying to get a great racehorse.

And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.