Andrew Skurka Quotes

After finding the migration trail of the Porcupine caribou, I began to cry uncontrollably, realizing that in this vast and untamed wilderness, I was like them: While being tortured by hellacious mosquitoes, soaked by torrential rains, and stalked by grizzlies and wolves, we were all trying to stay moving, and we slept and ate only to continue our forward progress.

Andrew Skurka

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• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Idea
  • Something
  • Begin

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Character
  • Underneath

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Christian

• There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Art
  • Think

• In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • You
  • Sales
  • Customer

• I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • Love
  • Start

• True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • True
  • Kind
  • Better

• No good deed goes unpunished.

  

  Clare Boothe Luce
  • Good

• When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • Work

• Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Women
  • Children
  • Stop

• If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Country

• Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Energy

• I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Brain

• My father was a doctor.

  

  David Alan Grier
  • Father

• Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am.” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Real
  • May
  • Friend

• How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Ends
  • Used
  • Alright

• After finding the migration trail of the Porcupine caribou, I began to cry uncontrollably, realizing that in this vast and untamed wilderness, I was like them: While being tortured by hellacious mosquitoes, soaked by torrential rains, and stalked by grizzlies and wolves, we were all trying to stay moving, and we slept and ate only to continue our forward progress.

  

  Andrew Skurka
  • Moving
  • Wilderness
  • Porcupine