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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• Granite
• Groan
• 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

• The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Granite
  • Quartz
  • Talcose

• Growing up with violence, with inescapable expertly choreographed brutality in every home builds not only a kind of desensitization for it, but it also creates a market for violent entertainment by people for whom even what they see on television is not enough, is not graphic enough, is not explicit enough, and some movie productions, some big productions really cash in on that market. What is peculiar about this is that as time goes on, a greater dosage is necessary to satisfy this need.

  

  George Gerbner
  • Movie
  • Violence
  • Television

• Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

  

  Michel Onfray
  • Conflict
  • Solutions
  • Philosopher

• 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