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mbsocal
Nov 24, 2003, 9:50 PM
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"Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you."
- Satchel Paige
"vy can't ve chust climb"
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ropeburn
Nov 24, 2003, 10:06 PM
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Fairly obvious.
John Salathé.
"How do you distinguish between being off-route and putting up a first ascent ?"
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mbsocal
Nov 24, 2003, 10:14 PM
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Brutus of Wyde
"If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?"
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Nov 24, 2003, 10:18 PM
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Doug Scott.
"Why bother with a guaranteed outcome? Courage and skill are of little use in a confrontation with certainty."
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hangdoggypound
Nov 25, 2003, 6:08 AM
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In reply to: How about another poet: "Live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, And all the craggy mountains yields." This is from Marlowe's The passionate Shepherd to His Love the poem actually starts off: Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasure prove That valleys, groves, hills and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields well according to my book for my english class this semester that is how it starts off. I guess I did learn something from my english comp 2 class huh.
Actually, I did get it from Willy Shakespeare. Click HERE to check it out. I searched my old anthologies but I couldn't find the sonnet, so I searched online. Evidently it is from his obscure collection called, "Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music." While Shakespeare was actually notorious for borrowing material from other writers, many writers tend to borrow from him as well. Marlowe and Shakespeare were born in the same year, so Shakspeare's piece was probably written as a cynical response to Marlowe's. See the last verse of Shakespeare's:
If that the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move,
To live with thee and be thy love.
It's kinda funny after reading both versions. Shakespeare likes to take that cynical view of love - he probably went into writing to 'get chicks' only to get shafted. Now he's considered a genious.
Anyway...
Quote on, quote on
Edited for my useless information above
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jello
Nov 25, 2003, 7:39 AM
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You're a star belly sneech you suck
like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you b!tch so you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you
Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers 'til you starve
Then your head is scewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, My son.......................
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ropeburn
Nov 25, 2003, 4:12 PM
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Jello Biafra., et all.
Holiday In Cambodia.
Dead Kennedys.
GIVE ME CONVENIENCE OR GIVE ME DEATH
May 1987
Good quote.
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diesel___smoke
Nov 26, 2003, 12:31 AM
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In reply to: "I went to retrieve the gun. I accidently left it in the restaurant. No no no, my OTHER gun. I was only gone five minutes. I mean, how long does it take to retrieve a gun after all? And when I came back? Myy wife was dead. Weird!"....
Robert Blake, currently being prosecuted for capitol murder in California. The death penalty is not being sought. He was released on $1,500,000.00 bail, for those who don't know this is very rare, as they have alleged he was lying in wait. A lying in wait allegation usually bars people from being eligible for bail. I believe the context of his words were different though.
"I started climbing when men were men... and we nailed 5.8."
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csoles
Nov 26, 2003, 4:07 PM
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"There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games."
Just for the record, Hemingway did not say this, write this, or believe this.
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jello
Nov 27, 2003, 2:53 AM
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Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tomb-stone-
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy:
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adamtd
Nov 27, 2003, 3:20 AM
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"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy"
Benjamin Franklin
"Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of teh tragedy which is actualy being staged in the civilised world"
And a second one for fun...
"Life is suffering." This is teh first line of a book... I'm looking for teh author and title of the book.
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sierramike
Nov 27, 2003, 4:02 AM
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"It ain't easy livin' free, season ticket on a one-way ride"---Those Scottish Bad Boys, AC/DC
"Play for more than you can afford to lose, for only then will you understand the game."
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gumbythepregnantelephant
Nov 27, 2003, 4:29 AM
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hangdoggypound wrote:
"Shakespeare... probably went into writing to 'get chicks' only to get shafted. Now he's considered a genious. "
for the recrd shakespeare didn't go into writing to impress chicks as he was married and had a kid before he really got into writing. His sonnets were also writen to a young boy (with lots of conjecture over his sexuality as a result, misguidedly). So basically it's pretty bloody unlikely that this was his purpose. I'm not tryinbg to argue that he is the artistic puritan that he is sometimes heightened to be as he was essentially writing to make money (and that he did, and lots of it). His later work was also principally based on sucking up to King James. But he still rocks.
sorry for my slight pedantic insight.
how about this for a classic quote
Lady "Winston you are drunk!"
Churchill " yes Madam, and you are very ugly, but tomorrow morning I will wake up sober... and you will still be very ugly"
(extra points for thinking that one up sober)
and another quickie that is kinda good for climbing
"we have gone to great lengths but not to great heights"
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sbclimber
Nov 27, 2003, 4:37 AM
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In reply to: "we have gone to great lengths but not to great heights"
I just got my paycheck, which makes me think of this (not climbing related at all :( )
"Nothing is certain but death and taxes" Easy one right?
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camnyk
Nov 27, 2003, 4:42 AM
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 8:02 pm Post subject: Re: Quote trivia
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"It ain't easy livin' free, season ticket on a one-way ride"---Those Scottish Bad Boys, AC/DC
Sorry AC/DC are Australian
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cantbuymefriends
Nov 27, 2003, 8:57 AM
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How about this, not exactly a qoute, but a newspaper announcement:
"Men Wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success."
(Hint, the name has been up already.)
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jello
Nov 27, 2003, 11:12 AM
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In reply to: "It ain't easy livin' free, season ticket on a one-way ride"---Those Scottish Bad Boys, AC/DC"
Scottish lads who moved to Austrailia in their early teens and formed AC/DC.
Mine was: Edgar Allan Poe, Spirits of the Dead
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amondin
Nov 27, 2003, 12:10 PM
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"Once on the mountain I knew that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find what I really sought was something I had left behind."
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roadguy
Nov 27, 2003, 1:15 PM
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"you gotta get into it before you can get out of it"
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dabhaid
Nov 28, 2003, 12:05 AM
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In reply to: How about this, not exactly a qoute, but a newspaper announcement: "Men Wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success." (Hint, the name has been up already.)
Absolute Legend: Ernest Shackleton.
How about this one:
"I came, I saw, I conquered"
hints: “veni, vidi, vici.”, the man who recorded it has been mentioned already...
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dabhaid
Nov 28, 2003, 12:07 AM
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Oh and Benjamin Franklin was the Death and Taxes one right?
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addiroids
Jan 4, 2004, 4:02 AM
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In reply to: "Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige "vy can't ve chust climb"
Not Salathe, but Werner Braun. Not so obvious I guess.
TRADitionally yours,
Cali Dirtbag
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addiroids
Jan 4, 2004, 4:37 AM
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In reply to: "I started climbing when men were men... and we nailed 5.8."
I thought this was:
"I started climbing when men were men...and 5.8 was aided."
And didn't Roper (from the "vague words" quote) do the FA on S Face of Charolette Dome?? That bastard. Being 100' runout on 5.8 face is not fun at all!!!
"...Follow the slot pitch. Go up another pitch to the Furrows Pitch."
Basically in the 8 pitches of the route, I lead it in 5 with a lot of simul-climbing to find descent cracks to belay in, and we were off route from the end of the first pitch to the start of the last 5th class pitch. Good times.
TRADitionally yours,
Cali Dirtbag
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steelmonkey
Jan 4, 2004, 5:00 AM
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In reply to: And didn't Roper (from the "vague words" quote) do the FA on S Face of Charolette Dome?? That bastard. Being 100' runout on 5.8 face is not fun at all!!!
No, he didn't. Wasn't even on the team. Who did will be an exercise for the reader. As they used to say...if you look it up, you'll remember it longer.
G.
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rokklym
Jan 4, 2004, 5:17 AM
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My turn, my turn....
1."Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your
priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life"
2. "You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never
know how soon it will be too late."
3.Climb the mountains and get their good tidings:
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers,
the winds will blow their freshness into you,
and the storms, their energy
and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
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