Ueli Quotes

#1. We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

Roy Barnes

#2. Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

Ueli Gegenschatz

#3. From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

Ueli Gegenschatz

#4. It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.

Jacki Weaver

#5. Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.

Ueli Gegenschatz

#7. She deserves better. So much better. She deserves me. If only she knew that.

Colleen Hoover

#8. I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

Ueli Gegenschatz

#9. You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons ... and they have to just move.

Ueli Steck

#10. Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.

Marc Ostrofsky

#11. When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your lungs. When I saw this time I was like, 'Ah, that's not possible.' Yeah ... that was a good moment.

Ueli Steck

#12. You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life.

Ueli Steck

#13. As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

Nhat Hanh

#14. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

#15. It's the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard - but when you move, you do not suffer. That's the feeling I am looking for.

Ueli Steck

#16. The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.

Asaram

#17. Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo.

Michael Pollan

#18. London is speared by the tube map of fashion zone: zone one is classic-edgy, zone two is edgy-dowdy while the counties do a classic, edgy, dowdy hotch potch - epitomised so beautifully by Kate Moss.

Tyne O'Connell

#19. Italy is another Pack's territory. You're a guest; make sure that you are a polite one.
God, I hope he told Heather that.

Elizabeth Morgan