Colin Fletcher Quotes

#1. God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan - or man to create both.

Colin Fletcher

#2. You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Clarence Day

#3. Taking a lot of selfies doesn't mean you live an examined life.

Gina Barreca

#4. Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

China Mieville

#5. I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the john, or walking. And the greatest of these, by far, is walking.

Colin Fletcher

#6. Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.

Colin Fletcher

#7. Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. Everyone's in their own personal coma.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men and worlds.

Isaac Asimov

#10. Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.

Colin Fletcher

#11. Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

Colin Fletcher

#12. HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Alphonso Jackson

#13. People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image

Colin Fletcher

#14. Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.

Watchman Nee

#15. Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

Colin Fletcher

#16. I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

Colin Fletcher

#17. Life should be an unfinished business.

Colin Fletcher

#18. I do what I do instinctively, and that's me. If you like me, that's fine; if you don't like me then don't watch me.

Colin Fletcher

#19. Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

Colin Fletcher

#20. The best dress for walking is nakedness.

Colin Fletcher

#21. He sighs. "It's just, you said they're up there protecting us..." He looks down at his hands in his lap. "Then why didn't they protect me?

Dannielle Wicks

#22. To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

Ari Fleischer

#23. Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

Colin Fletcher

#24. I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.

Doug E. Fresh

#25. You don't need to manage the clock when you score in one play.

Todd Blackledge