Arctic Circle Quotes

#1. But then, six months ago, my dad hauled me with him to this shaddy town in Alaska. Seward Peninsula, just below Arctic Circle? And then, middle of May - we flew to Fairbanks on a prop plane, and then we came here.

Donna Tartt

#2. Are you really going to go all the way to Helsinki to see her without getting in touch first? All the way across the Arctic Circle?" "Is that too weird?" She laughed. " 'Bold' is the word I'd use for it." "I feel like things will work out better that way. Just intuition, of course.

Haruki Murakami

#3. If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.

Alex Shoumatoff

#4. Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.

Harry Johnston

#5. I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.

John Burnside

#6. Brentford gave the polite smile of a man who talks daily with a living mechanical head about a city in the Arctic Circle governed by hermaphrodite Siamese twins born from a dead woman, and refrained from further comments about the probable and improbable.

Jean-Christophe Valtat

#7. She didn't even want to think of how hellish it would be if all the MacGregors made her feel like this one did, all hot and shaky. She'd have to move to the Arctic Circle before the month was out just to cool off.

Michelle M. Pillow

#8. It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys.

Gordon Brown

#9. It's a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we're happy.

Bern Will Brown

#10. Then I just closed my eyes and watched the blossom petals fall and

Meg Rosoff

#11. There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

Justin Kirk

#12. Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

John Dear

#13. Christian talk, when said in a non-Christian way, scares these Southerners to death.

Adam Johnson

#14. Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

Helena Blavatsky

#15. Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

Alexander Smith

#16. I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional ... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

Dana Goodyear

#17. It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can't do so with a pseudonym.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#18. God help us both if this is summer.
The sun shines all day and all night
but it has no warmth, no light, no colour.

Simon Armitage

#19. For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.

Brittany Snow

#20. Yeah, about that. I'm going to need considerable training before I jump when you use that tone with me.

Ruth Cardello

#21. You don't fuck Knight. No way. Knight fucks you.

Kristen Ashley

#22. I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.

Torrie Wilson

#23. I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

Christopher Darden

#24. When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

Margaret Atwood

#25. Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

Jonathan Woodgate

#26. Japan would never invade the United States. We would find a rifle behind every blade of grass.

Isoroku Yamamoto