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“Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.”

Love Age Heaven Rooms Vision Forever Masters Machines Agents Indian Our Time Climbs Hotel Climbing Sweat Quests Trapped Schedules Mystical Stairs Hotel Rooms Planners Lodges

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.”

Knows Action Honest Example Limits Achievement Satisfaction Being Honest Climbing Maximum Attempting Everest Honest With Yourself Be Honest With Yourself

Author:Stirling Moss

“Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.”

“And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.”

Feels Fall Emotion Climbing

Book:Cy Twombly: Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Skulpturen

Source: Cy Twombly: Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Skulpturen

“Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.”

Hardest Climbing

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?”

Wish Bed Graves Finding Yourself Climbing Wish You Bombing

Author:Ransom Riggs

“It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree-climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, 'Suppertime!'”

Looks Children Play Artist Hours Vision Tree Mom Solitude Look Up Climbing Chasing Commonplace

Author:Steven Pressfield

“I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.”

Giving Believe Stills Effort Company Danger Building Safe Intense Hated Pleasant Sensations Climbing Peers Feats I Still Believe Building Up Comradeship

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.”

People Has Beens Disaster Climbing Casual Everest Forecasts Mount Everest

Author:Edmund Hillary

“When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.”

Miserable Climbing

Author:Edmund Hillary

“When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.”

Giving Trying Challenges Mountain Admire Climbing

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.”

People Thinking Wells Names Challenges Mountain Paper Climbing Mountaineering Everest Streaming

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.”

Danger Safe Hated Climbing

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!”

Running Action Tree Climbing Jumping Transvestites Climbing Trees

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock directly above you. You can’t see where you’ve come from or where you’re going.”

Writing Rocks Fronts Mountain Climbing Screenplays Climbing Mountain

Author:Syd Field

“When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?”

Thinking Want Happens Order Natural Walks Feet Climbs Climbing Natural Order

Author:Rene Daumal

“Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!”

Art Social Art Is Sexy Fantastic Climbing

Author:Thomas Hoving

“Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.”

Way Happens Life Is Easy Balls Hot Climbing Bounce Climbing Up Getting Back Up Life Is Easy

Author:Bill Walton

“God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!”

Giving Give Me Hills Climbs Climbing

Book:The Mirthful Lyre

Source: The Mirthful Lyre

“Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.”

Ifs Men Made Said Ideas God Humor Funny Courses Sound Church Tree Worship Humorous Golf Climbing Golf Course Worship God Aluminum Siding

Book:I'm Not Really Here

Source: I'm Not Really Here

“On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.”

Perseverance Climbing Burned Vines Charcoal

Author:Soseki Natsume

“Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.”

World Home House Cities Broken Wall Garden Glasses Delight Climbing Blank Fountain Mexican Discouraging Masonry Burglars Broken Glass

Author:Charles Portis

“I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.”

Stills Kids Remember Fall Mom Gun Method Lays My Mom Climbing Lunch Couches Saddles Climbing Up

Author:Creed Bratton

“Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.”

Religion Religious Steps Higher Climbing Ladders Jacob

Author:Huey Lewis

“I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.”

Trying School Memories Feet Worst Fit Climbing Slippers Best Memories

Author:Bruce Feiler

“I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.”

Country Fun Stuff Boys Rocks Football Grew Grew Up Woods Climbing Riding Dirt Bike Kicking Playing Football Country Boy Dirt Bikes

Author:Taylor Kinney

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