Willans Climbing Quotes & Sayings

I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like. — Henry James

In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic. — Ray Kurzweil

Not one of them [formulae] can be shown to have any existence, so that the formula of one of the simplest of organic bodies is confused by the introduction of unexplained symbols for imaginary differences in the mode of combination of its elements ... It would be just as reasonable to describe an oak tree as composed of blocks and chips and shavings to which it may be reduced by the hatchet, as by Dr Kolbe's formula to describe acetic acid as containing the products which may be obtained from it by destructive influences. A Kolbe botanist would say that half the chips are united with some of the blocks by the force parenthesis; the other half joined to this group in a different way, described by a buckle; shavings stuck on to these in a third manner, comma; and finally, a compound of shavings and blocks united together by a fourth force, juxtaposition, is joined to the main body by a fifth force, full stop. — Alexander William Williamson

The only wise God! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Things in Arizona don't just die; they bake and fry in the heat until there is nothing left. — Jeffry R. Halverson

Sometimes, you have to just act, act in the right earnest way, without bothering about the results. — Girdhar Joshi

If you repeat something enough it can literally physically change the air particles around you and it can infuse the air with this sacred sound vibration, or it can change your material body, like transform your flesh to spirit. These are all beliefs within the Hare Krishna philosophy we were brought up with. — Taraka Larson

One cannot see one's own mistakes in matters where his interest lies. — Dada Bhagwan

Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I heard when I was 13. It was one of those things where it was like, "Hey, the world is much bigger than you imagined as a little kid." — Ezra Furman

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty. — Rand Paul

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue. — Ronnie Spector

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini. — Louise Erdrich

Belief does not change what is. — Francis Schaeffer