Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Ruskin

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

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.

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.

Ransom Riggs

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

Richard Paul Evans

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

Voltaire

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Warren G. Harding

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

Warren G. Harding

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

Warren G. Harding

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves...

Warren G. Harding

As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

Warren G. Harding

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was,

Warren G. Harding

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

Warren G. Harding

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

Winston Graham

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

Yvon Chouinard

The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.

Yvon Chouinard

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac...

Yvon Chouinard

The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.