People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Climbing Mount Everest is more satisfying than standing at the top; flirting and foreplay are more exciting than having an orgasm; and… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“I wake up feeling like I spent the last three days in a massage parlor. My muscles are relaxed, and I feel… — Victoria Scott 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
“At Tom's back, receding from view, lay State Street's Victorian brick facades, where lobbyists and trade associations housed their offices, like a… — Joan Quigley 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
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
Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It's like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
People get very excited about very high elements. That's why Mount Everest is so important - it's not the most difficult mountain,… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Along with osmium and platinum, iridium is one of the three heaviest (densest) elements on the Table—two cubic feet of it weighs… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“An eighty-year-old man has managed to climb Mount Everest. I have enough trouble stepping up on the curb. It isn’t fair.” — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
“My friend Dick Bass (now in his 70s) has travelled far and wide and had many adventures. His achievements include being the… — Roger Horchow Copy Share Image
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye Copy Share Image
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. — Tenzing Norgay Copy Share Image
