"Some day I'm going to climb Everest."

-- Edmund Hillary

#Everest Quotes #Climbs Quotes

“My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.”
“We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.”
“The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.”
“Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.”
“Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.”
“Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)”
“I want technology to work for me, and my readers. People get confused that technology comes first. The ideas come first. You need to use the medium.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

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