Top 30 Lansing Quotes
#1. He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.
Alfred Lansing
#2. No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.
Alfred Lansing
#3. The precision metallic ratcheting sound a Glock 9mm makes when a bullet is forced out of the gun's clip into the killing chamber is a universal sound that good guys and bad guys and wild animals alike understand on a primal level. - The Devil's Necktie
John Lansing
#4. I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
Alfred Lansing
#5. If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.
Sherry Lansing
#7. There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.
Thomas Lansing Masson
#8. The rapidity with which one can completely change one's ideas ... and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.
Alfred Lansing
#9. I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.
Robert Lansing
#10. Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.
Thomas Lansing Masson
#11. In 1916, President Wilson drafted the speech in which he declared, "It shall not lie with the American people to dictate to another what their government shall be." His Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote in the margin: "Haiti, S Domingo, Nicaragua, Panama."6 That
Os Guinness
#12. I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.
Robert Lansing
#13. The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.
Sherry Lansing
#14. Think of what would happen to us ... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
Thomas Lansing Masson
#18. You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.
Robert Lansing
#19. Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.
Thomas Lansing Masson
#20. Of all their enemies
the cold, the ice, the sea
he feared none more than demoralization.
Alfred Lansing
#21. It was only two months after Tunde, her ex-love interest, suddenly moved to North Carolina, against her wishes, when she met Amiel at a gas station in Lansing.
Jessica N. Watkins
#22. In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.
Alfred Lansing
#23. To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.
Thomas Lansing Masson
#25. It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft
they just do it
Alfred Lansing
#26. Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.
Alfred Lansing
#29. In some ways they had come to know themselves better. In this lonely world of ice and emptiness, they had achieved at least a limited kind of contentment. They had been tested and found not wanting.
Alfred Lansing
#30. This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe - and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The
Alfred Lansing
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