Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic! — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet. — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters. — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
“he was playing on the climbing structure by himself—or “by his own,” as the children sometimes charmingly put it.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba. — Temple Fielding Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
Around half of the top alpinists have died climbing. Of course if I'm careful and turn back more often than the others,… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
I have a journal of everything I've ever climbed since 2005. For the entry about free soloing Half Dome, I put a… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie… — Dave Cook Copy Share Image
“Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and… — Lloyd C. Douglas Copy Share Image
Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation.… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths,… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
![“I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went…” quote by Dave Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c2/dave-cook-79966_brain_i-became-so-desperate-that-i-considered_1855322.jpg)
