Karakoram Pass Quotes & Sayings

I was just laying aside a Lausanne paper I'd bought in Zurich when my eye was caught by a report that said the remains of the Bernese alpine guide Johannes Naegeli, missing since summer 1914, had been released by the Oberaar glacier, seventy-two years later. And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are found at the edge of the moraine, a few polished bones and a pair of hobnailed boots. — W.G. Sebald

In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day. — Adam Dunn

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. — Rumi

Vampires aren't noble?"
"No. We serve or we prey."
"Like monks?"
He frowned, confused, and then gave a soft chuckle. "Prey, as in hunt. No God would hear our prayers. — Erin Kellison

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned. — Robert M. Parker Jr.

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life. — Albert Finney