The Dawn Wall Quotes

#1. It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.

Kevin Jorgeson

#2. The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.

Tommy Caldwell

#3. Same thing every year, getting up at the crack of dawn, drinking, fighting, throwing up, pissing on walls and then you leave the house and things get bad.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#4. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing ... We may only go in circles ...

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#5. But Mike was not a Layercake device; Beria had misdirected his scientific staff. In time this led to Beria's ultimate dilemma.

Thomas C. Reed

#6. My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

Chris Abani

#7. My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'

Beverly Johnson

#8. In every laugh, he hears her, in every tear, he sees her. Not a mere reflection, the complete 'her'.

Faraaz Kazi

#9. I don't want to be guy that almost climbed Dawn Wall.

Kevin Jorgeson

#10. From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.

Li Bai

#11. When you see and feel the sensations you are experiencing as sensations, pure and simple, you may see that these thoughts about the sensation are useless to you at that moment and that they can actually make things worse than they need be.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#12. With each word, he broke past every barrier, every wall. And Sharazad's will fought him, screamed a silent scream, while her heart welcomed the intrusion as a songbird welcomes the dawn.

Renee Ahdieh

#13. The whole world has the illusory awareness of, 'I am the doer'. In reality, everyone's karmas are getting discharged, but one is not aware of this. One has no awareness of his own True Self.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

Kevin Jorgeson

#15. I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add.

Steven Wright

#16. I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable.

Holland Roden

#17. A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such.

John Dewey

#18. My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.'

Olivia Thirlby

#19. Answering the questions feels like beating my skull against the wall of my carrel,

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#20. The words slipped out like a bubble, too fragile to resist the destruction of air. It was like a glass smashing against a wall.

Dawn Kurtagich

#21. The church is called to be separate in lifestyle but never to be isolated from the people it seeks to influence. Salt, light, and leaven don't work very well from a distance.

Rick Rusaw

#22. All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus

#23. Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrow in response.
"Well, aside from mine of course," Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.

Cassandra Clare

#24. At dawn, after a summary court martial, Arcadio was shot against the wall of the cemetery. In the last two hours of his life he did not manage to understand why the fear that had tormented him since childhood had disappeared.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#25. Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?

Garth Nix

#26. I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

Peter Jacobson