Henry Hudson Quotes

Were it believed that vacant places could be had at the North Pole, the road there would be lined with dead Virginians.

Going to the Arctic was immense for me.

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

To get the feel of the polar night, I went back to Spitsbergen in winter. I went snowshoeing in the dark and experimented with headlamps and climbed a glacier in driving snow.

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

I would like to go to Antarctica. That's about all.

Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.

the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Threatened men live long.

I’m fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don’t defend myself, no one else will.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.