"After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea"

-- Ernest Shackleton

#Sea Quotes #British Quotes #Expeditions Quotes

“I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.”
“I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.”
“There never was a story that was happy through and through.”

Source : Marcus Sedgwick (2010). “Blood Red, Snow White: n/a”, p.26, Hachette UK
“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.”

Source : "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.
“Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.”
“She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.”
“With the quality of films it seems animation can do almost anything these days. Itâ€™s amazing what goes on. But for us itâ€™s always about trying to tell a good story, with great characters. And that will probably always be the philosophy as far as Disney and Pixar is concerned.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.”

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