Capitan Quotes

#1. Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be done in five days, perhaps less; and a younger generation will make a new route on the west face.

Royal Robbins

#2. I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.

Kelly Preston

#3. For the first time in as long as he can remember, El Capitan is proud of his brother. Damn it, Helmud! Shit! You've been planning to kill me!

Julianna Baggott

#4. She acts like she don't like you"
"She doesn't like anyone"
"She likes Capitan Black", Orr reminded.
"That's because he treats her like dirt. Anyone can get a girl that way

Joseph Heller

#5. El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.

Tommy Caldwell

#6. Success is the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that come from knowing I did the best I was capable of doing for the group.

Jim Tressel

#7. George, this is history," Lacon protested weakly. "This is not today.

John Le Carre

#8. Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.

William D. Hoard

#9. Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.

Pai Kit Fai

#10. One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur with some degree of probability. To put it simply and crudely: Anything that can happen does happen.

Kenneth W. Ford

#11. Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.

Elvis Presley

#12. Tears at times have the weight of speech.

Ovid

#13. Security is by far the city's predominant business.

Ron Suskind

#14. I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Alice Walker

#15. You hear it every four years, ... Scare the seniors, scare the seniors.

John McCain

#16. There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You can take the cat ouf of Egypt, but you can't take Egypt out of the cat. Wow, I should have that embroidered on a pillow or something.

Kiersten White

#17. I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.

Ryan Lochte