Rene Daumal Quotes

Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

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• John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Green

• When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Work
  • Understand

• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health
  • Care
  • Decisions

• We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Love
  • Think
  • Difficult

• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Love
  • Chocolate

• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Look
  • Winter
  • Diamonds

• There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Dream
  • Like
  • Ideas

• I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Car
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Free

• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fear
  • You
  • Will

• It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • School
  • Fun
  • See

• I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Want
  • Woman
  • Curves

• After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Looking

• Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Words
  • Meditation

• It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Husband

• In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

  

  Mary Grandpre
  • Wonder
  • Unknown

• The audience is already doing so much, so I don't make them work any harder.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Work

• Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

  

  John Milton
  • Heaven
  • Offspring
  • First-Born

• For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Today

• For me, I think Andre Drummond is going to be a superstar. We didn't have that. We had a lot of very good players. I think Drummond will be a superstar if he continues to work. The media, everyone is behind him.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Good
  • Work

• The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Action
  • Alternatives
  • Does

• Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • True
  • Action

• Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Action
  • Mountains
  • Definition