Sir Chris Bonington Quotes

#1. Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation.

Geoffrey Wood

#2. The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Kuo Pao Kun

#3. I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon which can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States.

Henry Waxman

#4. If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.

Michele Bachmann

#5. We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?

Khloe Kardashian

#6. If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

John Larroquette

#7. The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does novelty seek to call attention to itself.

Milan Kundera

#8. The day is won [ ... ] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.

George R R Martin

#9. There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy

#10. 'Rocky' is an incredibly human story, and 'Creed' is very inspired by the Rocky lore, but there's something kind of profound in letting it all go. This is the first time I'm co-writing, and I'm learning as I go. This process is so different from 'Fruitvale'; hopefully it gets made.

Ryan Coogler

#11. The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.

Jeremy Hardy

#12. I like helping children. I have a big thing with children. You can correspond with the child, send something to them as a gift. You know it's actually getting there and you are doing something to help.

Lisa Marie Presley

#13. Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

Rumi

#14. I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

Nathaniel Rateliff