Anatoli Boukreev Quotes

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

Anatoli Boukreev

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• And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Running
  • Say

• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Up
  • Know
  • Thought

• I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Space
  • Play
  • Information

• Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Party
  • Christian
  • Dog

• The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Try

• Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.

  

  Candice Olson
  • World
  • Trust
  • Design

• We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Book
  • America
  • Myself

• At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Day
  • End

• A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sleep
  • Teacher
  • Someone

• 'I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.' No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • People
  • Giving

• Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• To have simple structures and organizations with minimal hierarchical levels, with human development and in house training of executive functions. To have flexibility and speed in making decisions. Operating with the advantages of the small business, which are what comprise big businesses.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • House
  • Small

• All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Words

• The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Idea
  • Human Mind
  • Constitutes

• One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.

  

  Adam Ross
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Inspiration

• He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song 'Taxman.' But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of 'Come Together' or three lines of 'Eleanor Rigby,' you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!

  

  George Harrison The Beatles
  • Together
  • Song
  • Balance

• There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

  

  Anatoli Boukreev