quotes about Alpinism

“Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.”

“Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.”

“If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?”

“Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.”

“The idea comes before the logical argument.”

“Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny.”

“I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.”

Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Terrence McNally". Interview with Harry Haun, www.playbill.com. March 26, 2011.

“The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.”

“Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.”

“Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.”