Anker Quotes

#1. ANKER (A'NKER) n.s.[ancker, Dut.] A liquid measure chiefly used at Amsterdam. It is the fourth part of the awm, and contains two stekans: each stekan consists of sixteen mengles; the mengle being equal

Samuel Johnson

#2. Anker's was low-class enough so that the drinks were cheap, but high-class enough so that you didn't have to worry about someone picking a fight or throwing up on you. I liked it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

William Shakespeare

#4. The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own.

Anker Frankoni

#5. Climbers have no sense of smell.

Conrad Anker

#6. Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Lara Jones never fails to tell me that my reading about war makes me weird, but I can't get her fascination with reading abour fairies and wizards, so I guess that makes us even.

A.S. King

#8. We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.

Anker Jorgensen

#9. Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory

Conrad Anker

#10. Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.

Conrad Anker

#11. Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

Carlo Collodi

#12. When Good gave Eve that extra rib? He should have given us something extra too. Like mental telepathy.

Emma Chase

#13. TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

Peter Scott

#14. There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

Conrad Anker

#15. With fumbling fingers Harry started to remove his many layers of clothing. Where "chivalry" entered into this, he thought ruefully, he was not entirely sure, unless it counted as chivalrous that he was not calling for Hermione to do it in his stead.

J.K. Rowling

#16. Your sordid life is your sordid life. You shouldn't live it if you don't like it.

Alice Sebold