I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic…

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion…

— Lincoln Ellsworth

Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and…

— Louis Bernacchi

“You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic.”

— Thomas Pynchon

Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited…

— Clive Cussler

The Antarctic ice sheet has reached record levels in the midst of so-called climate change and global warming. It's the same thing at the…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Thomas Pynchon ("V"): "Everyone has an Antarctic.”

— Michael Warr

“But alas! Firemen [stoking a ship] are not what they were. The gor-blimey firemen of the coal-burning days must, I think, be a diminishing…

— Ommanney F. D

In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of…

— Richard E. Byrd

“They were for all practical purposes alone in the frozen Antarctic seas. It had been very nearly a year since they had last been…

— Alfred Lansing

The scientists are not the billionaires who live on top of the hill. They're not driving around in expensive cars and riding jet planes…

— Tim Russ

“There was the sheer Antarctic landscape, and the mind moving across it like a brush on canvas, until the brush was laid aside, and…

— Elizabeth Arthur

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter.…

— Ranulph Fiennes

“The Antarctic gives the impression of being white, but really it's blue. Almost entirely constructed of that pale, powder blue that at times can…

— Mat Johnson

If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been true in…

— Susan Jacoby

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

— Sandy Berger