Apsley Quotes & Sayings

We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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

Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now? — Henry Winkler

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements. — Michel De Montaigne

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

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Short on money, long on hope — Kim Edwards

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

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified. — Brandon Sanderson

Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a tremor, a tremble, a breath. — Lauren Oliver

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

We are a nation of shop keepers. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change. — Lisa Unger

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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

I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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

Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why. — Jim McKelvey

It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It's a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community? — Seth Shostak

The amusement she had drawn from their disapproval was a slavish remnant, a derisive dance on the north bank of the Ohio. There was no question of forgiving them. She had not, in any case, a forgiving nature; and the injury they had done her was not done by them. If she were to start forgiving she must needs forgive Society, the Law, the Church, the History of Europe, the Old Testament, great-great-aunt Salome and her prayer-book, the Bank of England, Prostitution, the Architect of Apsley Terrace, and half a dozen other useful props of civilization. All she could do was to go on forgetting them. But now she was able to forget them without flouting them by her forgetfulness. — Sylvia Townsend Warner