Pole Quotes
236 quotes by 208 authors
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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
— Robert Falcon Scott
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow…
— Werner Herzog
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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
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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…
— Mark Twain
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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would…
— Greg Kinnear
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Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to…
— Robert Ruark
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Light black. From pole to pole.
— Samuel Beckett
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Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house…
— Dan Chaon
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The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong…
— Heather Mills
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As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself…
— Karl Kraus
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With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
— David Lindsay-Abaire
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Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash,…
— Robert Montgomery
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You're dressed up like the flag, somebody get him a pole! Oh, no, no, no, I know how you can get one. Go on a…
— John Cena
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I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.
— Karl Marx
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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to…
— Frank Moore Colby
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When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?'…
— Diana Lopez
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My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.…
— Robert Metcalfe
Who Wrote These Pole Quotes
208 authors contributed a total of 236 Pole Quotes, led by these top contributors: