Amundsen Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Men, as Amundsen liked to say, are the unknown factor in the Antarctic.

Roland Huntford

#3. For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#4. Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.

Lewis Gordon

#5. Then she sat down on a kitchen stool with the mysterious letter in her hand. Who are you? She had no idea. She was Sophie Amundsen, of course, but who was that?

Jostein Gaarder

#6. Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. My name is Grey Amundsen. But Grey, she doesn't exist in here, in this slimy, smoky, sex-hazed hole. In here, I'm Gracie.

Jasinda Wilder

#8. I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.

Paul Watson

#9. But it is possible that a completely different author is somewhere writing a book about a UN Major Albert Knag, who is writing a book for his daughter Hilde. This book is about a certain Alberto Knox who suddenly begins to send humble philosophical lectures to Sophie Amundsen, 3 Clover Close.

Jostein Gaarder

#10. There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#11. What an opportunity we have to be a community ... A community where there are models.

Judah Smith

#12. Adventure is just bad planning.

Roald Amundsen

#13. Today, many people not only take the self for granted but struggle mightily to connect it to anything larger. In Lincoln's time, the idea of the self had the power - tinged with uncertainty, even with danger - of something emerging and ascending.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#14. And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#15. How do you know they are Hunters?" Lucien asked.
"They had guns and knives strapped to their bodies, and I saw the mark of infinity on one of their wrists." Branding themselves was foolish, if you asked him. Like putting a neon sign around their necks that read 'Shoot here'.

Gena Showalter

#16. The amount of time it took me to get a show like 'Shameless' was definitely worth it because of the people and the material. I can appreciate it because I know what it's like when I didn't have a show.

Shanola Hampton

#17. The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.

Roald Amundsen

#18. A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

Roald Amundsen

#19. The English have loudly and openly told the world that skis and dogs are unusable in these regions and that fur clothes are rubbish. We shall see - we shall see.

Roald Amundsen

#20. An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

Karen Abbott

#21. Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Hafez

#22. We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Roald Amundsen

#23. If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.

Radhanath Swami

#24. Sohlberg looked as if he had just swallowed a spoonful of lutefisk.

Jens Amundsen

#25. Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

Roald Amundsen

#26. The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Erica Jong

#27. Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

Roald Amundsen

#28. The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.

Roald Amundsen

#29. Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.

Thomas Hobbes

#30. Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

Frank McCourt

#31. With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

Roald Amundsen

#32. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

Julia Hill