I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
“How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to… — George Mallory Copy Share Image
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest) — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
“People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no… — George Mallory Copy Share Image
I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to… — Ed Viesturs Copy Share Image
We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest,… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I was on NPR's All Things Considered yesterday. The question was, 'You're on the torture rack, they're going to kill you, who… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
On Mount Everest it feels as if you are in the womb, but on K2 you are always out on the edge. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
