Climbable Quotes & Sayings

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable. — Sydney J. Harris

Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up. — Aaron Patzer

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. — Matt Taibbi

Stand up and finish what you started — Bob Harper

He accepted then declared, "I drive. You ride. Not a rule, that's a law. Get me?"
"What if you've had a freak accident and you've broken your arm and ankle?" I asked for specifics.
"If that shit happens, I hope to God you're smart enough to pick up a phone and call an ambulance rather than draggin' my ass to my car, which would be agony, shoving it in, which would be more agony, and taking me to the hospital — Kristen Ashley

I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a Civil War doctor - What would they be doing with their nails? Would they cut them really low? And Dr. Burns said, "No, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. They would use their nails." So for a while I let my nails grow. They were too long. I kept stabbing myself by accident, so I cut them down, but I was trying to be faithful to the details. — Josh Radnor

See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest. — Mary Summer Rain

After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place,
Agony, that enacted there,
Motionless as peace. — Emily Dickinson

Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom. — Steven Redhead

All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must base our life's reality.

This has nothing to do with anything. — Fernando Pessoa

While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find. — Elissa Schappell

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day. — Chad Harbach