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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. -- Edmund Hillary
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. -- Roger Bannister
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. -- Tenzing Norgay
There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world. -- John Frankenheimer
I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well. -- Yuichiro Miura
After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting. -- Yuichiro Miura
Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them. -- Heidi Klum
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. -- George Leigh Mallory
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. -- Christopher Hitchens
I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit. -- Gary Johnson
The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone. -- John McPhee
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. -- Pete Dye
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. -- Zig Ziglar
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! -- Aldous Huxley
Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest. -- Natalie du Toit
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care. -- Jon Krakauer
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top. -- Jacqueline Susann
Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing! -- Edmund Hillary
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. -- Alan Rickman
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer. -- Edmund Hillary
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series. -- George R. R. Martin
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. -- Ari Fleischer
People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility. -- Alan Huffman
People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do. -- Paula Cole
I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me. -- Raha Moharrak
We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons. -- Stephen King
Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case. -- Dave Barry
Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest. -- G. Harry Stine
I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die. -- Edmund Hillary
I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity. -- Ada Yonath
You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that? -- Chris McCormack
I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together. -- Al McGuire
Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there. -- George Leigh Mallory
Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain. -- Lewis Pugh
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. -- George Leigh Mallory
I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn't mean I have any intention of trying to climb it -- Jeaniene Frost
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. -- Roland Smith
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . . -- Amy Johnson
Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another. -- Chico Xavier
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest -- Ari Fleischer
The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain. -- Colin Wilson
I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain. -- Leonard Cohen
I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult -- Dr. Seuss
It wasn't a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you'd have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds. (Astrid) Yeah, maybe next time I'll remember to take my climbing gear with me. (Zarek) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest. -- Lewis Thomas
I was on NPR's All Things Considered yesterday. The question was, 'You're on the torture rack, they're going to kill you, who are you going to vote for? Mitt Romney, or Barack Obama? I said, 'Look, I've climbed Mount Everest. I know how to do what it takes. Take this to the bank: I would rather die.' -- Gary Johnson
Do you respect someone's right to challenge and discover their true potential?How is a gang-bang any different than risking your life to climb mount Everest? -- Chuck Palahniuk
I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do. -- Christy Turlington

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