"I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous."

-- Edmund Hillary

#Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“On the first night it was on telly, Channel 4 had 17 complaints.”
“Bad literature is a form of treason.”
“You can turn the sphere for a cutting point, but if you're really just existing in the 180, cutting is much easier. If you're existing in a 360 space, it gets more complex.”
“So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.”
“Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.”
“Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.”
“I do think John Kerry has tried awfully hard to work with Russia and others to have a lasting, significant cease-fire.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with that opportunity or not. This is my right, or poetic license, as someone who is building an artefact of fantasy - this implicit pact with the reader is my starting point.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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