Conrad Anker Quotes

#1. Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

Jim Morrison

#2. I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#3. Climbers have no sense of smell.

Conrad Anker

#4. I never thought I'd get to do that.

Kendare Blake

#5. Learn from your unhappy customers.

Bill Gates

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

Conrad Anker

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

Conrad Anker

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

Conrad Anker

#9. To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade-off.

Bill Maher