"There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips."

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Source : Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books

Hermann Buhl

#Eye Quotes #Feet Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.”
“tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ...”

Source : Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.213, Vintage
“We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.”
“The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.”
“You are your best thing”

Source : Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.251, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”
“Better a pink bottom than a black soul.”
“I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.”

Source : "Interview: Director Jon M. Chu On 'Extraordinary Dancers', 'G.I. Joe 2', and 'Masters Of The Universe'". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 26, 2012.

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