Nanga Quotes & Sayings

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. — Jacques Barzun

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair. — Ice Cube

Yeah, who's this Leo guy anyway?"
"How would he even know where we are? He's not a problem."
"False: I'm Leo, and I am a problem. — Hazel Blackthorn

The american climber Mark Twight, mentor of the Grivel climbing team, commented, "Now every ill-prepared sad sack whose ability falls short of his Himalayan ambitions can get on the radio, call for help, and expect the cavalry to save the day"
- on Tomaz Humar's rescue from Rupal Face of Nanga Parvat. — Bernadette McDonald

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. — Phillips Brooks

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did. — Jim McKelvey

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. — Rosecrans Baldwin

You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up. — Rob Roberge

Ants are busy. They have too much to do to feel bad. — Marshall Thornton