Peck Smith Quotes & Sayings

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. — Howard Rheingold

I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure. — Caio Fonseca

I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber. — Annie Smith Peck

Why did he have to be sensible? This maddened me. It was my body. I should be able to decide when and if I needed medical attention. I let out a determined huff. They could try to make me go, but I wouldn't be forced. — Brenda Pandos

Without faith, you are as a crow who has forgotten his ability to fly; you peck at the dark, muddy earth when the bright mountains lie before you. — Seth Adam Smith

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago. — Tom Bergeron

Objectivity? I always have an objective. — Jessica Mitford

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic. — Carl Sagan

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing. — Annie Smith Peck

Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better. — Simon Sinek

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. — Annie Smith Peck

Movement means freedom. That's what life's all about. — Collette West

Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: 'If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?' — Annie Smith Peck

Family is becoming more and more important to me. — Diane Kruger