#stairs

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. ↗

— M. C. Escher

#achieve #attempt #basement #check #go

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#called #climb #compete #could #faster

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#bamboo #climb #god #important #important thing

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#climbed #died #early #floor #laden

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set. ↗

— Jaime King

#doing #down #fell #finger #funny

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#country #cross #cross country #downstairs #enter

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#downstairs #falling #half #i #i see

It’s that I think Will is angry with me,” Tessa explained. “So whatever he told you—” He laughed. “Will is angry with everyone,” he said. “I don’t let it color my judgment. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-castairs #tessa-gray #will-herondale #humor

Though Will was saying earlier,” Tessa added, “that heroes all come to bad ends, and he could not imagine why anyone would want to be one, anyway.” “Ah.” Jem’s hand squeezed hers briefly, and then let it go. “Well, Will is looking at it from the hero’s viewpoint, isn’t he? But as for the rest of us, it’s an easy answer.” “Is it?” “Of course.” His voice was almost a whisper now. “Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes. If Will … ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #will-herondale #imagination

Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de. In all the world, you are what I love the most. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #tessa-gray #love