"The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that."

-- Tamae Watanabe

#Fun Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more, I guess. It involves separating life, breaking off this chunk that's devoted to making something. There's a lot of pleasure in that, but there can also be a lot of struggle. There's always this fantasy that you could just live life and not have to think about it.”
“We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.”
“I think the most remarkable thing about ice, in my opinion at least, is that it occurs in many, many, many different forms. Most solids occur in typically one or maybe two or three different forms, and ice has approximately 15 different crystal forms, as well as two forms that are called amorphous, which means without any shape at all.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.”
“Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.21, Penguin
“Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.”
“I used to do kickboxing, because I liked the cute outfits.”
“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”

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