Quotes About Heights

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

If I were to be asked what we are, I should answer: 'We are the door to everything that can be, we are the expectation that no material response can satisfy, no trick with words deceive. We seek the heights. Each one of us can ignore this search if he has a mind to, but mankind as a whole aspires to these heights; they are the only definition of his nature, his only justification and significance.

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Every time I think you've reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

Esa misma cara resplandecería de alegría en cuanto cruzara la meta, como si solo lograse alcanzar las alturas sumiéndose primero en los abismos personales más insondables.

For a dog is not like a cat. Like men, a dog has learnt to fear heights. And yet it was the only way.

new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were jumping in 1974 and 1975. There was a new enthusiasm for jumping and we were all trying to outdo each other by jumping higher and higher. The problem was that ... the riders flew off in mid-air because there was no

The more abysmal the experience of the actual, the greater the implied heights of the virtual.

I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.

En el fondo nos da vértigo desde el pozo mirar a la altura. En el fondo nos da cosa, hacernos traición. A mí por lo menos no me agrada ni siquiera la idea, de intentar sustituirte

I had felt myself not merely incapable of love – many are incapable of that, but even of guilt. There were no heights and no abysses in my world – I saw myself on a great plain, walking and walking on the interminable flats.

He was distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or open spaces.

No one could possess a shred of doubt that Olalla's most famous institution was the sanitarium up on the heights off Orchard Avenue.

Are you afraid of heights? Only when I'm on them!

Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

as he soars from the precipice edge, dreamy.

If there were a choice—and he suspected there was—a choice between, on the one hand, the heights and the depths and, on the other hand, some sort of safe, cautious middle way, he, for one, here and now chose the heights and the depths.

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Altitude sickness, also known as mountain sickness, is caused by a lack of oxygen at great heights. Symptoms include headaches, dizziness, and shortness of breath. Climbers traveling up Mount Erebus train for days by climbing to gradually increasing heights.

I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.