Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mitch Daniels

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

Mark Udall

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

Nhat Hanh

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

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.

Mark Twain

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Mark Twain

Experience comes from bad judgment.

Nikki Giovanni

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

Ted Turner

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

David Rosenberg

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

Heidi Klum

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

The first thing we need to do in response to these climbing prices is get our house in order. The U.S. needs legislation that addresses our energy problems, provides incentives for alternative energy, improves energy infrastructure, maximizes domestic resources and addresses the fact that the energy crisis we face now isn't going away.