John Bachar Quotes

#1. It might well be that getting used to things up here was simply a matter of getting used to not getting used to them - but

Thomas Mann

#2. Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.

John Bachar

#3. My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

James Buchan

#4. You can't be loyal to others if you're not loyal to your own nature first.

Tor Seidler

#5. Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.

John Bachar

#6. Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

A.W. Tozer

#7. The house itself was not so much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace, rather gray for California, and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler Building.

Raymond Chandler

#8. My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do.

Steve Blake

#9. I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

Barack Obama

#10. Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

#11. I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

John Bachar

#12. Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

John Bachar

#13. Every day I go out and climb, like a dancer who works on his dance. He probably has some goals, some pieces he would like to perform, but his main goal is to work on his dance. This is how he expresses himself. Both he and I are interested in the same thing. It's the dance that counts.

John Bachar

#14. Screw normal. You know why? 'Cause if you're normal, the crowd will accept you. But if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader.

Christopher Titus

#15. My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Bob Dylan

#16. No one will know who we are ... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

Malcolm X