Roald Amundsen Quotes

Adventure is just bad planning.

Roald Amundsen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: norwegian
  • Birth: July 16, 1872 - June 18, 1928

Topics

AdventurePlanningBadJust

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

Robert Musil

ThoughtsAttentionDaysSomething

I'm very visionary, very big picture.

Max Azria

PictureBig PictureVisionaryBig

One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that life was noisy in London.

Spike Milligan

LifeQuietIndiaImportantWay

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Steven Wright

LightSpaceSpeedYouTurnAnything

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Tom Waits

MusicInvolvedAwkwardHeavyLifting

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Lucas Till

FirstCrushCallNumberSheet

I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.

Jay Parini

SpiritualEnergyStoryRealitySay

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

Joseph Stiglitz

KnowledgeResourcesGapMuch

Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.

Dianne Feinstein

HopeBuildingPresentNeverUs

We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls.

Connie Sellecca

BathroomBedroomApartmentCloset

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

Claire Tomalin

PowerForwardPoliticalPartyNever

I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.

Brad Anderson

StorySomethingMightFactFamiliar

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