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.

Ozzie Newsome

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

I often start into these trips knowing that there's an underlying purpose that transcends merely climbing a peak.

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.

Ingmar Bergman

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

J. Cole

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Ovitz

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

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

John Sherman

Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

James Joyce

O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

James Russell Lowell

It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

Jon Krakauer

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

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

Andrew Wilson

This is a great feeling. We've been climbing that mountain. Tonight, we made it to the top.

Philip Roth

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

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.

Richard Nelson

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

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.