Alpinism's Quotes

#1. Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

Steve House

#2. 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

John Milton

#3. Don't analyze me. We've got a whole department of shrinks on the payroll for that.

J.D. Robb

#4. Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

Michael Kennedy

#5. The light in his eyes was like the sun rising. My knees trembled and my heart quaked. It was powerful and beautiful and perfect.

Kylie Scott

#6. The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.

Gregory Crouch

#7. Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

Rene Daumal

#8. Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk ... A very faint kind of language.

L. Ron Hubbard

#9. She turned to the first page, feeling vaguely prurient, like an eavesdropper or a peeping tom. Novelists spend a lot of time poking their noses into other people's business. Ruth was not unfamiliar with this feeling.

Ruth Ozeki

#10. It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

Jonathan Swift

#11. Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.

Norm MacDonald

#12. During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats for the price of one, for nine pence, in the gods.

Geraldine McEwan

#13. Why do you dwell on things that don't matter when there are so many things that do?

Dennis Sharpe

#14. It's a simple liberating reality - the best things in life are mine for the choosing ...

Thomas Kinkade

#15. Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.

Osho

#16. You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you. Nothing is ever the same.

Heraclitus Of Ephesus