Climbed Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists? — Bret Easton Ellis

You're practically begging for it, aren't you?" he murmured.
"No."
His chuckle rasped over her senses. "I like begging, Reagan."
"I'm not going to beg."
He was silent for a moment, his fingers still playing, and she wondered if she'd said the wrong thing. Then he said softly, "Damn. — Kelly Jamieson

I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself. — Krista Tippett

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground. — Confucius

I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something ... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right.' Now it is only when we understand what he means by this modest little word 'right' that we begin to understand what artists are really after. — Ernst Gombrich

Work sucks. That's why it isn't called 'fun'. — Bruce Bethke

She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You can't ignore orange things. She once saw an orange parrot in the pet store and had never wanted anything so much in her life. She would have named it Halloween and fed it butterscotch. Her mother said butterscotch would make a bird sick and, besides, the dog would certainly eat it up. September never spoke to the dog again - on principle. — Catherynne M Valente

If I know what your messages are, if I can read those, I'll probably be able to conclude where you're going, who you're with, the location the message was sent. — Tim Cook

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks. — Adam Gopnik

I wished that I ... had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless. — Ingrid Law