Gnarly Dude Sayings

#1. 'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.

Alex Honnold

#2. Nowadays, you really have to make an impression quick and I think this does give people a chance to show off what they've got. It's very difficult these days. You really have to stand out quickly. I think it's also so diverse that there's enough material for everybody.

Julie Halston

#3. Don't tell people what you're going to do, or what kind of person you are. Just show them.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#4. I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

Hillary Clinton

#5. If it's something everyone knows, I can't afford to ask.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.

Sam Shepard

#7. The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

Alan Davies

#8. Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

Richard Florida

#9. Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think I've been lucky to do that.

Ally Walker

#10. Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.

Tom Thomson

#11. Playing guitar as a young teen, I didn't really have the little light bulb in my head that said you're committed until when I was about 16. By the time I was 16, I was like, I'm guna do this. I don't care what happens. I'd play whatever other instruments fell into my hands along way.

Steve Kimock

#12. What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Raymond Aron

#13. Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.

Michael Chabon