Apsley Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Josh Billings

#3. Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#4. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#5. The wonderful thing about a yearbook photo is that everyone shares the moment with you . . . forever.

Jay Asher

#6. Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#7. Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#8. I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#9. I'm not a very serious Jew. I don't wear the protective religious headgear. They only wear that because 40% of all religious thoughts escape through the head.

Jon Stewart

#10. We are a nation of shop keepers.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#11. 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

#12. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#13. I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.

Steven Johnson

#14. In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#15. Don't you think being in love with a girl you've never talked to is a little strange? Like way stranger than my situation? I mean, my infatuation is based purely on booze, sure, but, yours is based on... well, nothing.

Andy Thomas

#16. The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#17. The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#18. If you want to conquer civilizations, restructure their languages.
Long time ago, even god used this strategy to rule over mankind.

Toba Beta

#19. I guess you'd have to say that sometimes the audience is smarter than the critics.

Toby Emmerich

#20. Being called the nice girl, is way better than being called a bitch.

Lauren Conrad

#21. I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

Carolyn Hax

#22. Only you would see the bright side of the apocalypse.

J.J. Snow