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Quotes About Extreme

I was once told that flying involves long hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of extreme fright.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica.
~ Jill Tarter
If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don't make any money.
~ Tim O'Reilly
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
~ Thomas Sankara
Yorkshire weather can turn quickly. At one Auld Lang Syne race, it dropped to -16C. The frost turned everybody's hair grey. I couldn't take my shoes off, as my laces had frozen solid.
~ Jonathan Brownlee
Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
~ Raf Simons
Our soldiers in Siachen are performing their duty with great courage and fortitude, even in extreme conditions and treacherous terrain.
~ Rajnath Singh
I remember when that Kelis song 'Milkshake' came out, and just how extreme it seemed in terms of that really high triangle part and then the really low subs and then her voice in the middle.
~ David Longstreth
I wanted to go to the extreme in the sense of places that were not explored and meeting people, tribes. I wanted to have an adventure.
~ Yossi Ghinsberg
I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.
~ Tupac Shakur
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.
~ Edwidge Danticat
I've inflicted so much pain and suffering on myself over the years. I had a piercing called a guiche. That's the part between your arsehole and your balls. You're on all fours on a gurney. Your ass in the air, your meat and two veg hanging down. Your dignity is out the window. This girl did it, tattoos all over her face. I nearly passed out with the pain.
~ Steve Malins
The thing about the 'Broken Skull Challenge' is that there's really nothing else like it on television.
~ Stone Cold Steve Austin
Extreme sports has changed our aesthetics because they slap cameras all over the place and we really know that they are jumping out of a plane or parachuting or whatever it is they're doing.
~ Kari Skogland
You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.
~ Mos Def
I think that anybody, once we leave Jamaica, automatically, any citizen becomes an ambassador for the flag, for Jamiaca. It's a country that's so rich in culture. We even have a bobsled team, and we ain't even got snow. We do everything in extreme.
~ Shaggy
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
~ Dave Barry
La foiblesse de nostre condition, fait que les choses en leur simplicité et pureté naturelle ne puissent pas tomber en nostre usage... Nostre extreme volupté a quelque air de gemissement, et de plainte.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.
~ Felix Baumgartner
Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erraticaly in all directions, that the chance of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme.
~ Terry Pratchett
These are difficult time, transformative times- times of extreme actions especially within our national parks. Extreme drought. Extreme fires. Extreme development with extreme policy shifts needed in the name of global warming. The world is changing dramatically, both ecologically as well as politically. But I believe our greatest transformation as a species will be spiritual. The word we must include all species.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.
~ Daniela Bobadilla
We all know that Kim Jong-il is 'buy-yourself-a-handgun' crazy. It's pretty much a given.
~ Steven Crowder
'Raaz Reboot' doesn't have extreme boldness, but I was apprehensive about the kissing scenes.
~ Kriti Kharbanda