"One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon."

-- Don Whillans

#Climbing Quotes #Needs Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.”
“Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King.”
“To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.”
“I just couldn't have people thinking that I only believe thin is beautiful. Thin is beautiful, but it's not the only kind of beautiful. I didn't want people to get the wrong message because of some retouching.”

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“Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.”
“If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.”
“Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in the adolescent's or young adult's life, when a certain response is needed, and this need is not met, and the failure to meet this need is forever remembered, and is never forgiven.”
“Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.”

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