Climbing Quotes - Page 21

• Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

  Bear Grylls

  Ambition, Heart, Pride

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• When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Night, Play, Climbing Up

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• Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

  Roger Zelazny

  Time, Men, Hills

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• 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.

  Heidi Klum

  Want, Would Be, Share

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• Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

  Heath Ledger

  Running, Tights, Agents

  Interview with David Michael, www.bbc.co.uk. September 25, 2003.

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• When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Kings, Intellectual, Meat

  "Elysium's director thinks his Hellish Paradise is our future. Let's hope he's wrong" by Mark Yarm, www.wired.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

  Mark Udall

  Cutting, Numbers, People

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• 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.

  Mark Udall

  Hiking, Gears, Boots

  "Support Net Neutrality to Preserve a Free and Democratic Internet" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Running, Kids, Tree

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• When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

  Andy Serkis

  Swimming, Mountain, Sides

  "Serkis: Playing Virtual Parts On The Big Screen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 4, 2011.

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• The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

  Gus Van Sant

  War, Shopping, Yuppies

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 22, 2003.

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• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stress, Pride, Effort

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• I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games.

  Hal Porter

  Sports, Running, Fun

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• Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Rocks, Stories

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mitch Daniels

  Might, Firsts, Chance

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.

  Barbara Mertz

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Purpose, Gains

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• Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.

  N.D. Wilson

  Running, Epic, Building Houses

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• I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  Robert Frost

  White, Snow, Tree

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

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• Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, “Coming out!” She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they both looked like a couple of sweaty, parboiled turtles climbing out of their shells. “Hello, gorgeous.” She laughed. It hurt her throat, but she laughed. “Hey, handsome.

  Nora Roberts

  Hurt, Couple, Turtles

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

  Philip Roth

  Childhood, Tree, Sage

  Philip Roth (2007). “Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985”

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• Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

  Carrie Underwood

  Love Is, Hands, Forever

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• Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

  Rose Macaulay

  Animal, Aunt, Camels

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• When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Eye, Looks, Steps

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Tiger L.L.C.

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• Our Heavenly Father loves each one of us and understands that this process of climbing higher takes preparation, time, and commitment. He understands that we will make mistakes at times, that we will stumble, that we will become discouraged and perhaps even wish to give up and say to ourselves it is not worth the struggle. We know it is worth the effort, for the prize, which is eternal life, is “the greatest of all the gifts of God.” And to qualify, we must take one step after another and keep going to gain the spiritual heights we aspire to reach.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Father

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