Ueli Steck Quotes

You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons...and they have to just move.

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Family
  • Hands
  • Capitalism

• I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Life
  • Love
  • Hate

• Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Way
  • Quiet

• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Country
  • Business
  • History

• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• A revolution is not a bed of roses.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Bed
  • Roses

• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Know

• Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Hope
  • Future

• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Future
  • Language
  • Moon

• A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Man
  • Dragon
  • Button

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Husband

• You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Life
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Won’t you help the government in saving Gujarat? Won’t you help us in maintaining peace and harmony? The Government of Gujarat appeals to you for help, appeals to you for shanti (peace) and sanyam (restraint or self-discipline).

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Discipline

• Britney Spears comes on and she's singing about Pepsi, except you don't know what she's saying, because she can't fucking sing, so what you have is this: titty titty titty titty titty titty titty, ass ass ass, titty titty titty titty, ass, ass, BIG ASS, titty titty titty titty titty titty ass ass titty ass.

  

  Lewis Black
  • She
  • Singing

• The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

  

  C. Walton Lillehei
  • Heart
  • Brother
  • Wings

• You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons...and they have to just move.

  

  Ueli Steck
  • Moving
  • Hands
  • Ice