Surfing The Himalayas Quotes

#1. In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Apply reason and evidence to the problems around you. Reach conclusions, then test them. See if your deductions stand up to testing. Only then will you know real truth.

Mitchell Hogan

#3. When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.

Carla H. Krueger

#4. Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

Antony Beevor

#5. We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#6. We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.

Hendrik Poinar

#7. It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour.

Ana De La Reguera

#8. Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.

Laura Kreitzer

#9. However incompatible the spirit of Jesus and armed force may be, and however unpleasant it may be to acknowledge the fact, as a matter of plain history the latter has often made it possible for the former to survive.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#10. I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.

Major Taylor

#11. What's looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

Lierre Keith

#12. At football games the other students would cheer the star black running back, and then when a black player on the other team got the ball, they'd yell, "Kill that nigger! Kill that nigger!" They would yell this sitting right next to her, as though she really were not there.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#13. For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been.

Virginia Woolf

#14. Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life.

Frederick Lenz