To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending.… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out… — Christa B. Allen Copy Share Image
Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success.… — Wanda Rutkiewicz Copy Share Image
It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about… — Peter Croft Copy Share Image
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child Copy Share Image
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more. — Nolan Gould Copy Share Image
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
