Everests Quotes & Sayings

The thought that I might soon hear my "voice" say, "I'm hungry" as many times as I want it to astounds me. Realizing that I might be able to ask, "What's on the TV?" amazes me. These simple words are my own personal Mount Everests, to think I might soon conquer them is almost unimaginable. — Martin Pistorius

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype. — Parminder Nagra

But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation. The church offers grace. Anything else we try to peddle is snake oil. It's not the real thing. — Rachel Held Evans

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting. — Georgia Jagger

Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests. — James E. Faust

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star. — Chris Elliott

There are a lot of people who don't think girl groups last very long, but Girls' Generation wants to break that theory. — Seohyun

She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in. — Charles De Lint

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display. — Conor McGregor

I've taught you how to fuck. I've taught you how to make love. Now I need to teach you the full extent of foreplay. — J.J. McAvoy

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe. — Anne Tyler

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left unexploited, if they are going to encourage anxious, ambitious actors, directors, writers and producers to continue their assault on the English language by reducing the vocabularies of their characters to half a dozen words, with one colorful but overused Anglo-Saxon verb and one unbeautiful Anglo-Saxon noun covering just about every situation, then I would like to suggest that they stop and think about this: making millions is not the whole ball game, fellows. Pride of workmanship is worth more. Artistry is worth more. — Gregory Peck

I don't think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope — Adrienne Rich

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can
what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts. — Brandon Sanderson

And the young do not tell themselves to the young, but to the old, like me, who have known so many sorrows and the causes of them. — Bram Stoker

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past. — Jorge Luis Borges

I just want to be
the size of a galaxy
so I can eat all the stars and gas giants
without them noticing
and getting upset.
Is that so bad?
Isn't that
what love looks like?
Isn't that
what you want, too? — Catherynne M Valente