Famous Quotes & Sayings

They're all climbing the ladder (toward a state championship).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

J. Cole

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

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

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.

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.

Ingmar Bergman

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

It was great, a fabulous year. It was different than any other market I've been through in 36 years. It kept climbing for so long. Now it's flattening.

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.

Joyce Carol Oates

I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.

Jim Perrin

They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

George Leigh Mallory

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

George Leigh Mallory

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

George Leigh Mallory

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

Joe Biden

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Josh Billings

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

Paul Theroux

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

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.

Nhat Hanh

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

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.

Mitch Daniels

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

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.