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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• Slow-moving
• Glacier

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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

• With Dio, my first time to Japan, middle of summer, and it was rainy, hot, humid. We went on at 2 AM after Foreigner and Sting and there were a couple of Japanese bands before us. Mama's Boys went on at the crack of dawn. They were serving breakfast backstage.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Breakfast
  • Bands
  • Japan

• Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Weaknesses
  • Strengths
  • Emphasize

• When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Relationship

• I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.

  

  David Bowie
  • Real
  • Boys
  • Gentleman

• 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