"Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as... a climber... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist."

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Source : Pat Ament (1997). “How to be a master climber in six easy lessons”

Pat Ament

#Fall Quotes #Piano Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“I try to cultivate friendships, because they are great assets. And I tend to make them last over time. Nevertheless sometimes they end mysteriously and you don't really know for what reason. Just like loves.=”
“I'm ecstatic that I had the opportunity to play in the American Basketball Association. It was an opportunity to be part of something new and exciting and I think everyone who played would tell you the same thing.”
“Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.”
“When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .”
“I take things on a day to day basis when it gets really hectic. But I do think long term and I'm looking forward to the next couple of years when I do start producing my own films with my production company and playing some characters that are older and that's really exciting to me.”
“Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.”

Source : Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.11
“The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”
“Hands have their own language.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.106, Oneworld Publications

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