Words matter. These are the best Avalanche Quotes from famous people such as Conrad Anker, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Pete Buttigieg, John Branch, David Olusoga, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The compression of time one experiences when you’re a small person underneath this huge avalanche is amazing.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our dining room table.
I covered hockey for a few years in the late ’90s and early 2000s for the ‘Colorado Springs Gazette,’ and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I’ve done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.
The primitive fight-or-flight regions of our mammalian brains react to immediate danger. We instinctively run from an avalanche but the gradual retreat of a glacier, the portent of the far greater danger of rising temperatures and rising oceans, just doesn’t get through to us in the same way.
Whatever happens, I’ll just keep moving forward. Like an avalanche.
My dad and I had been close – he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for ‘avalanche,’ because of my nonstop energy. I took a lot from him, like being a risk taker, and I know how much he loved my mother.
You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those who want to see themselves on screen, and it is a white male world. Still, it does feel like America is waking up. Let’s hope it’s the start of an avalanche.
Anytime you’re the creative force behind something and in front of the camera – we’re not complaining, but it is an avalanche of work.
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.
You’ll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It’s called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.
I do miss the Avalanche. That’s the my favorite car of all time, but that Dodge Ram Rebel has overtaken the Avalanche; I just love that truck. It’s got good vents in the hood; there’s no running boards underneath, so I can go Baja-ing if I want to, off-roading.
In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.
I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.
My family moved to Aspen, Colorado, where we had ‘Avalanche Danger’ days that kept us from going to school, climbed 14,000-foot peaks as part of my education, and I learned to snowboard.
My father blamed me for my brother Gunther’s death, for not bringing him home. He died in an avalanche as we descended from the summit of Nanga Parbat, one of the 14 peaks over 8,000m, in 1970. Gunther and I did so much together. It was difficult for my father to understand what it was like up there.
I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that’s an industry leader in making games for women. We are passionate about creating narrative games for the avalanche of new consumers who don’t fit the old gamer stereotype.
My mum has a cupboard in her house, and you have to fight an avalanche of tea whenever you open it. I go through eight teas a day because I like having something in my hands when I’m working, and it stops me going for the cookie jar.
So, when you come down a big wave and everything’s perfect, you make it to the shoulder and you kick out. But, when you come down and it closes out or you fall on the way down, then this massive, basically like an avalanche. just lands on you and it feels like a ton of bricks.
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.
The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
It’s not like I’m training every day by doing an avalanche suplex off the top turnbuckle.
I’ve know Justin since I was a child. I went to school with his younger brother Michel, who died in the Avalanche. But Justin and I are four years apart – when you’re 12 and 16, it’s worlds away. I always thought he was handsome though.
Obamacare arrived also because Republicans failed to persuade the public that we could address the avalanche of problems government had already created by decades of interfering with the health-care market.
What I do know is that with a celebrity’s death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death – it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the ‘story.’
Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.
