Shipton Quotes

#1. It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

Michael Chabon

#2. Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

Waylon Jennings

#4. For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born.

Deborah Harkness

#5. The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some

Eric Shipton

#6. Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

Eric Shipton

#7. At least this mountain world, to which I owed so much of life and happiness, would stand above the ruin of human hopes, the heritage of a saner generation of men.

Eric Shipton

#8. I grew up on the island, Trinidad to be exact, and I never thought it would be possible. These sort of things happen once in a lifetime. I just know God is bigger than me and everything I do is to serve and please Him.

Heather Headley

#9. One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

Rick Heinrichs

#10. A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

James Russell Lowell

#11. There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.

Eric Shipton

#12. Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#13. If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.

Derek Jeter

#14. My night shall be remembered for a star
That outshone all the suns of all men's days

Rupert Brooke