Quotes About Challenge

barely-affordable purpose. I had been tempted on several

When the job blows up in your face, remember Rum Jungle. We'll need every man - and then it won't be enough. = Retief in Retief

I've been stuck up shit creek without a means of propulsion too, you'll need to dig deep and be willing to get your hands dirty.

You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. 'Cause as sure as I know anything, I know this: They will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground, swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people—better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.

Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet." Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything." "Says the man who'd just punch the haystack.

I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.

History is coming for the empire.

We get the place on the right swell, surfing it is one thing, getting good shots is something else. You get fog up there. You get rain. You get clouds. The light is shit. Harmon knows that too. That's why he asked for you. Radical conditions, a narrow window. You better have somebody who can get the shot. His problem is, he thinks you're still the one.

A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light.

Life is like checkers. When you reach the top, you can move wherever you want.

Arizona is no place for amateurs.

The bad wheel creaks the most.

remember what Billy Connolly said, that there isn't bad weather, only wrong clothes.

The black-white rift stands at the very center of American history. It is the great challenge to which all our deepest aspirations to freedom must rise. If we forget that--if we forget the great stain of slavery that stands at the heart of our country, our history, our experiment--we forget who we are, and we make the great rift deeper and wider.

As for the Wings, I wanted to tighten some already painfully tight screws, to force on them the kind of cruel question no one should have to answer: am I willing to go through what surely I must, for something I will surely never get?

The hardest part about photography is getting out of bed.

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry ' or 'Movies ' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.