North Pole Quotes

• I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.

  Brian Blessed

  Men, Serious, Three

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• What lies north of the North Pole?

  Stephen Hawking

  Lying, Spacetime

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.161, Random House

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• Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Giving, Tolerance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hands, Giving, Touching

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• I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Years, Santa, Helping

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• I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Ice, Yellow, Nuclear

  "Traveling with the Stars: Buzz Aldrin". Interview with Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2009.

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• As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

  Barry Commoner

  Teacher, Doctors, Views

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.

  Walter Reisch

  Men, Sky, Years

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• Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Travel, Eye, Want

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• The Danes are causing a bit of trouble. The kingdom of Denmark claimed the North Pole as their own. Hey, you can't just reach out and take something if you want it, Denmark. That's Russia's job.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Russia, Hey

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• I embraced Hinduism because it was the only religion in the world that is compatible with National Socialism. And the dream of my life is to integrate Hitlerism into the old Aryan Tradition, to show that it is really a resurgence of the original Tradition. It's not Indian, not European, but Indo-European. It comes from back to those days when the Aryans were one people near the North Pole. The Hyperborean Tradition.

  Savitri Devi

  Dream, People, World

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• In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

  Mark Twain

  Europe And America, Discovery, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.

  Keith Johnstone

  Men, Self, Trying

  Keith Johnstone (2012). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.88, Routledge

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• When you think about it, Alaska is also near the North Pole, so she must also be friends with Santa.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Alaska, Santa

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• The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Book, Writing, Effort

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• Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Science, Wind, Chicago

  "Riders of the Purple Wage" (1967)

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• Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Jealousy, Cold, Sunny

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• We [human beings] are two-legged omnivorous animals, and this means that we have many ecological niches, regarding the possible places where we can live. Therefore, we have to adapt to these different environments and we cannot predict, in a generic way, in which type of world we are going to live (cold as the North Pole or hot as Congo).

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Mean, Animal, Two

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• I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out?

  Jabari Asim

  Dog, Song, Religious

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Differences, Desert, Made

  Roy Chapman Andrews (2013). “Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure”, p.38, Read Books Ltd

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• What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.

  Guillermo Gonzalez

  Moon, Swings, Darkness

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• If I ever get married, I'd like to pick a place so hard to reach that only a few people would turn up-like the North Pole. A destination wedding weeds out all the people who might potentially get their noses out of joint, so only the troupers would be there.

  Billy Campbell

  Weed, People, Joints

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• I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.

  Sophie Calle

  Mother, Thinking, Impossible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Believe, Mean, Axes

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• The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.

  Walter Lantz

  Two, Office, Cartoon

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