Everest Quotes

113 Everest quotes by 70 unique authors

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… — Heidi Klum
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… — George R. R. Martin
I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest… — Michael Palin
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary… — Alan Rickman
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is… — Margaret Thatcher
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt.… — John McPhee
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. — Roland Smith
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… — Jacqueline Susann
An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded… — Salman Rushdie
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God. — Roland Smith
I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to… — Stephen King
...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every… — Muriel Barbery
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You… — Salman Rushdie
It wasn’t a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you’d have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it — Jeaniene Frost
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived… — John McPhee
How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve stairs?" I asked… — Karen Marie Moning
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an… — Jon Krakauer
A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest. — Gayle Forman
Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality. — Jon Krakauer
This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but… — Jon Krakauer
When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a… — Jodi Picoult
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. — Zig Ziglar
Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was… — Maureen Johnson
Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest. — Lewis Gordon Pugh

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