Bouldering Quotes & Sayings

Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbing — Ron Kauk

Whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it. — Eve Merriam

What would happen if you did just shut a door and stop speaking? Hour after hour after hour of no words. Would you speak to yourself? Would words just stop being useful? Would you lose language altogether? Or would words mean more, would they start to mean in every direction, all somersault and assault, like a thuggery of fireworks? Would they proliferate, like untended plantlife? Would the inside of your head overgrow with every word that has ever come into it, every word that has ever silently taken seed or fallen dormant? Would your own silence make other things noisier? Would all the things you'd ever forgotten, all layered there inside you, come bouldering up and avalanche you? — Ali Smith

Your only identity is I AM undefined and infinite. Any label you give yourself limits yourself. — Deepak Chopra

When I was 17, I blew out my knee bouldering, and I wasn't able to climb for a year. It was hard for me to have to stay away from what I love and what makes me happy. But it was a wake-up call to take care of my body and not be too reckless. — Chris Sharma

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements. — Alex Colville

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory. — Wayne Shorter

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult. — Jarvis Cocker

Though I wondered what she ever made of my professed love for and intentions to marry Big Bird, the hottie of Sesame Street. — Wendy Delsol

Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don't need to worry about your protection. — Scott Grimes

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah. — Edward Abbey

Faeries can be quite mean if they are provoked. — Elizabeth Rudnick

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. — Andrew Shue

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve. — Janwillem Van De Wetering

I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. — Herman Melville

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing. — Tommy Caldwell

Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill- — Jon Krakauer

He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black."
"I prefer canine-American," said Total. — James Patterson

An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave. — William J. Mitchell

...the only guarantee in this fleeting market day we call life is that no matter how carefully you plod along, you'll grow old and get sick, or a force will sneak up on you in the dark and snuff you like piss on a campfire. Nobody is going to remember your hardest bouldering problem or that you sent your project. After a few years nobody cares who got the gold medal or the gold for that matter. Nobody care who sent what, when, where, why, and how. The memories fade, then just disappear...all that remains is the impact you had on other people — Jeff Jackson