Ann Bancroft Quotes

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

Ann Bancroft

Quotes to Explore

I like films to be complete in their written form.

Patrice Leconte
- Like
- Form
- Complete
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings
- Learning
- Dance
- Stars
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

Mallory Ortberg
- Women
- She
- Fun
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman
- Good
- God
- Bad
One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

H. P. Lovecraft
- Never
- Terrible
- Produce
The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.

Walt Mossberg
- Time
- America
- Water