Anker Quotes & Sayings

We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy. — Anker Jorgensen

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.' — Sebastian Thrun

The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own. — Anker Frankoni

Climbers have no sense of smell. — Conrad Anker

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn't do in international cricket, but that's how you learn. — Virat Kohli

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest. — Conrad Anker

No statues, please. School or statue? Hospital or statue? No need to explain further. — Chetan Bhagat

Cops are stupid. — Deyth Banger

Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory — Conrad Anker

Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world. — Sanober Khan

I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness. — J.K. Rowling

Because you have to keep them on tenterhooks until the end. It's like when you're playing cards: you have to hold a few trump cards for the final part of the game. — Joel Dicker

ANKER (A'NKER) n.s.[ancker, Dut.] A liquid measure chiefly used at Amsterdam. It is the fourth part of the awm, and contains two stekans: each stekan consists of sixteen mengles; the mengle being equal — Samuel Johnson

Anker's was low-class enough so that the drinks were cheap, but high-class enough so that you didn't have to worry about someone picking a fight or throwing up on you. I liked it. — Patrick Rothfuss

She wasn't dressed like a student. She wore an elaborate burgundy dress with long skirts, a tight waist, and matching burgundy gloves that rose all the way to her elbows.
Moving deliberately, she managed to get down off the stool without tangling her feet and made her way over to stand nest to my table. Her blond hair was artfully curled, and her lips were a deeply painted red. I couldn't help wondering what she was doing in a place like Anker's. — Patrick Rothfuss

Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow. — Conrad Anker