Edmund Hillary Quotes
My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
-
A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
-
If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
-
Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
-
I want to play interesting women.
-
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
-
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
-
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
-
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
-
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
-
I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
-
Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
-
In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
-
No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
-
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
-
Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
-
It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
-
Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.
-
An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.
-
There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
-
I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.
-
My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me.
