"In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze."

-- Richard E. Byrd

#Zero Quotes #Winter Quotes #Ice Quotes

“I think theres something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.”
“He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.”
“Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.”
“We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new fields].”
“The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.”
“We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.”
“Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.”
“It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.”

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