You wait. Everyone has an 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

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

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

— Robert Falcon Scott

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

“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the…

— Flannery O'Connor

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to…

— Laurie Helgoe