54 Quotes About Antarctica

He’d touched her, felt her skin, seen her pleasure, and it scared the living hell out of him. She’d burn him if she got too close. And he wasn’t sure he’d survive it.

It’s an old story, amigo mío. Be careful of those closest to you because they can do the most damage.

The instinct of the thief is most strongly marked in the Skua tribe, and I am afraid that the mere love of thieving alone actuates them on many occasions.

I want to visit the snow in Antarctica before global warming turns it into a tropical paradise.

No sunrises that stop you dead with their unspeakable beuaty, either, he thought. No whales breaching only yards away from the ship, showering your awestruck self with a cold ocean rain. No songs and whiskey belowdecks at night while the wind plucks at the ship's rigging and the ice beats against her hull.

Two Dutch, two Americans, one German and one Australian. And yet, as the rocket began to quake beneath us, my mind focused on a man in Antarctica. I thought about Sam "Snowbow" Archambeau waiting for the September sunrise to reach the South Pole. I smiled recalling him getting a haircut in a lawn chair next to the frozen barbershop pole." -- Nikki in the upcoming novel, "Nikki White: Polar Extremes" (Nikki, #3)

Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.

Antarctica. You know, that giant continent at the bottom of the earth that’s ruled by penguins and seals.

Looking into space from Antarctica feels like looking into space from space. On a night like this--no wind, no weather, no moon--the smear of the Milky Way looks more like a celestial fire, brimming with colors you'd never see from anyplace else on Earth.