"I did the 23 hour nose-route to the top of El Capitan in 6 hours and 18 minutes! I can make this work."

-- Billy Bishop

#Noses Quotes #Hours Quotes #Minutes Quotes

“A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.”
“I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.”
“Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.”
“How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.”
“Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself "Oh! I want this! I want this!" And so, when we didn't win, I got depressed for about 20 minutes, and then I snapped out of it and enjoyed the rest of the evening.”
“Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.”
“Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”

Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 42), 1986.

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