Chris Bonington Quotes

There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

Chris Bonington

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• Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy the future conception of reality.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Art
  • Future
  • Reality

• I'm not a daily coffee guy at all, or energy drinks or anything like that.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Guy
  • Daily
  • Coffee

• I've always been able to make a living, a pretty decent one. The progress has always been steady, if not spectacular. Now when I audition, I go up against people like Juliette Lewis and Joan Cusack, and, quite frankly, if the producers can get them, they're not going to take me. I'm still pretty much a medium potato.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Progress
  • Steady
  • Spectacular

• I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Glad
  • I Know
  • Lessening

• I wouldn't date a girl with a bad attitude. I'm 'Mr. Positive.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Girl
  • Attitude
  • Date

• I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • World
  • Place
  • Joey Ramone

• In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.

  

  Arthur Ekirch
  • War
  • Society
  • Crises

• In choosing a dog to share your life, you have an incredible opportunity to form a powerful bond with a member of another species.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Dog

• When you have county roads like this that are coming a lot more congested, people just don't expect cars to meet you at intersections.

  

  Brad Arnold 3 Doors Down
  • Roads
  • Cars
  • Intersections

• There's only one plan in football: win you next match.

  

  Johnny Giles
  • Win
  • Plan
  • Match

• If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Creativity

• Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • World
  • Kind
  • Ambition

• It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.

  

  Glenn Danzig
  • People
  • Songs
  • Covered

• The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Different
  • Important
  • Government

• The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

  

  Wilkie Collins
  • Books
  • Masters
  • Generous

• There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

  

  Chris Bonington
  • Covered
  • Granite
  • Groan