Rock Climber Quotes

#1. It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)

John Edensor Littlewood

#2. Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.

Alex Pettyfer

#3. I like when I don't have to be careful what I say. That's when you know you're with the right people.

Anonymous

#4. We build too many walls to be honest with ourselves. -Allanon

Terry Brooks

#5. To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

Bernadette McDonald

#6. Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.

George Soros

#7. When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.

Sam Keen

#8. I don't rate them, I just hit them.

Willie Mays

#9. Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.

Tim Allen

#10. I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

Robert Littell

#11. To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Ai Weiwei

#12. I was the climber of a sheer cliff, dragging myself on bleeding hands towards a summit that I'd never reach and sometimes didn't want to reach. The things I cared about were the hooks I'd driven into the rock face. Depression snapped them, one by one, one by one. My only certainty was the fall.

Alexis Hall

#13. Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!

Tad Williams

#14. Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

Aaron Copland

#15. are holding this book means you have more than a passing

Sue Pickering

#16. The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

Robert Greene

#17. Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as ... a climber ... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.

Pat Ament

#18. I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.

Troy Garity

#19. Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Antonin Artaud

#20. That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think ... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.

Emmett Shear