Ben Saunders Quotes

#1. When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles.

Ben Saunders

#2. My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

Ben Saunders

#3. Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004 ... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

Ben Saunders

#4. There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.

Billy Dee Williams

#5. Either they fall down, or they make me look like Tintin," Ben complained. "It's all right for Fritz - he's the same shape as those plastic blokes in the window.

Kate Saunders

#6. It's secret that evangelical Christians are critical players in Republican primaries.

Michel Martin

#7. Emma felt a compulsion to run her hands through it. To step into his arms and never leave. Desire shot to her knickers and an aching throb began between her thighs Shit, I didn't come here for this.

Amanda Clark

#8. If you have someone you think is the one, take them and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all over the world, to places that are hard to reach and hard to get out of. And when you land at JFK and you're still in love with that person, get married.

Bill Murray

#9. The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

Bill Nye

#10. I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

Ben Saunders

#11. A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.

Norman Mailer

#12. Ben sighed, his mouth crammed with biscuit. "You don't trust us at all, do you? You think we're going to whip out our knobs between courses and show you up.

Kate Saunders

#13. Love is the greatest force to change human heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Those who fully express their soul are peaceful, bold, and confident. They can be peaceful because they know that their essence is eternal, indestructible wholeness, and they are bold and confident because they know their own absolute value.

Ilchi Lee

#15. Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that

Albert Lee

#16. Where can you steer clear of bandits? Where do the drugs go over? Where can you avoid getting kidnapped by the narcos? Where is there a spot left with no wall, no robbers, and no narcos? Nobody has been able to answer this last question.

Oscar Martinez

#17. What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe ... but thankfully it's still intact.

Ben Saunders

#18. Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country.

John Paul DeJoria

#19. We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

Timothy Keller

#20. I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.

Ben Saunders

#21. If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Chuck Yeager

#22. I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

Ben Saunders

#23. Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.

Steve Hanke

#24. Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.

Ben Saunders

#25. Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

Curtis Jackson