Longyear Museum Quotes

#1. Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

Victor Hugo

#2. We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.

Peter Habeler

#3. Clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

David Mitchell

#4. Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

Lindsay Fox

#5. Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.

Tim McIlrath

#6. We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#7. When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.

Renee Fleming

#8. Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

Alex Turner

#9. Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Archimedes

#10. Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#11. I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein