Upbears Quotes

#1. Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

Hesiod

#2. Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

Ron Kauk

#3. and the rest is silence

William Shakespeare

#4. A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#5. Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher.

Jennifer Armintrout

#6. The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Tom Rachman

#7. We can't make love out here. It's freezing!" Maryanne cried.
A boyishly beseeching look lit up his eyes. "We would heat up quickly."
"It's fine for you," she protested. "You only need one part of your body, and you'll be sliding that into warmth.

Sharon Page

#8. She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

D.H. Lawrence

#9. I'm always happy to talk to somebody; it's flattering that people remember your movies. Especially some movie that you did, for Christ's sake, almost 35 years ago, or what's especially pleasant is if you're talking about some movie that you did 35 years ago and they're 20 years old.

Walter Hill

#10. ...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

Ruth Dugdall