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Annie Smith Peck Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: October 19, 1850 - July 18, 1935

Topics

Man Satisfaction Labor Follow Hard

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Art Progress Expectations Way Social

The Internet makes writing about restaurants easier and more interesting in quite a few ways, one of the main ones being to do with the mundane business of checking what's on the menu.

John Lanchester

Business Writing Internet Interesting

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.

Live History Talking Ice Back House

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Singing Remember Us Read Really

I'm not a good golfer. I don't have any hobbies, really.

Good Hobbies Any Really Golfer

Business school professors don't take selling seriously because they don't know how to sell. It's easy to talk about business theory and production time and just-in-time development. Selling is much more difficult.

Business Time School Easy Know Talk

A piece of my heart will always be in football, but my mind ended it.

Heart Football Mind Will Always

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

Creative Guitar Doing Enough Know

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Arthur Eddington

Nature Science Mind Where Found Put

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

Job Hat Never Take Off Kids

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

Richard Simmons

Positive Me Eating Rules Sacred

I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay attention in school, or I'd sing in class and get in trouble - I'd always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.

School Attention Back Down Trouble

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