"Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it."

-- Edmund Hillary

#Snow Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Thrill Quotes

“I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.”
“You can't be hesitant about who you are.”

Source : "STAGE TO SCREENS: Chats with Intimate Apparel's Viola Davis and New York Newcomer, King Lear's Geraint Wyn Davies" by Michael Buckley, www.playbill.com. March 14, 2004.
“I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual civilization ... But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us expect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.”

Source : Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.128, Courier Corporation
“You don't have to look poor, you don't have to look down; For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be.”
“There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.”
“I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.”
“Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.”
“It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.”

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