"I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead."

-- Wanda Rutkiewicz

#Climbing Quotes #Film Quotes #Climbers Quotes

“Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to your alma mater, renew former associations and friendships, and catch that Baylor spirit again?”
“Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.”
“Perhaps I am following in the footsteps of FranÃ§ois Mitterrand, who really did want to shape Europe. My predecessors, by contrast, thought it was best to say nothing at all and to keep all their options open. That may sound like a tactical approach, but perhaps it was simply because they didn't have any ideas for Europe at all.”
“The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the real world... a race without end... What mattered more than the answers were the questions... For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future... I had turned my anxiety into my profession.”
“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”
“Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.”
“The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean. That aching moment. You can see the pieces, you can see how they fit together, but you can't put them back together.”

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