Feichtner Lansing Quotes

#1. I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives. #Quote by Sherry Lansing

#2. It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft
they just do it #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#3. Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#4. He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#5. They were for all practical purposes alone in the frozen Antarctic seas. It had been very nearly a year since they had last been in contact with civilization. Nobody in the outside world knew they were in trouble, much less where they were. They had no radio transmitter with which to notify any would-be rescuers, and it is doubtful that any rescuers could have reached them even if they had been able to broadcast an SOS. It was 1915, and there were no helicopters, no Weasels, no Sno-Cats, no suitable planes.

Thus their plight was naked and terrifying in its simplicity. If they were to get out - they had to get themselves out. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#6. America, secure in its fortress of neutrality, watched the war at a remove and found it all unfathomable. Undersecretary of State Robert Lansing, number two man in the State Department, tried to put this phenomenon into words in a private memorandum. "It is difficult, if not impossible, for us here in the United States to appreciate in all its fullness the great European War," he wrote. "We have come to read almost with indifference of vast military operations, of battle lines extending for hundreds of miles, of the thousands of dying men, of the millions suffering all manner of privation, of the wide-spread waste and destruction." The nation had become inured to it all, he wrote. "The slaughter of a thousand men between the trenches in northern France or of another thousand on a foundering cruiser has become commonplace. We read the headlines in the newspapers and let it go at that. The details have lost their interest. #Quote by Erik Larson

#7. If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made. #Quote by Sherry Lansing

#8. In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#9. There were the sounds of the pack in movement - the basic noises, the grunting and whining of the floes, along with an occasional thud as a heavy block collapsed. But in addition, the pack under compression seemed to have an almost limitless repertoire of sounds, many of which seemed strangely unrelated to the noise of ice undergoing pressure. Sometimes there was a sound like a gigantic train with squeaky axles being shunted roughly about with a great deal of bumping and clattering. At the same time a huge ship's whistle blew, mingling with the crowing of roosters, the roar of a distant surf, the soft throb of an engine far away, and the moaning cries of an old woman. In the rare periods of calm, when the movement of the pack subsided for a moment, the muffled rolling of drums drifted across the air. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#10. Of all their enemies
the cold, the ice, the sea
he feared none more than demoralization. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#11. What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#12. They thought of home, naturally, but there was no burning desire to be in civilization for its own sake. Worsley recorded: "Waking on a fine morning I feel a great longing for the smell of dewy wet grass and flowers of a Spring morning in New Zealand or England. One has very few other longings for civilization - good bread and butter, Munich beer, Coromandel rock oysters, apple pie and Devonshire cream are pleasant reminiscences rather than longings. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#13. It was only two months after Tunde, her ex-love interest, suddenly moved to North Carolina, against her wishes, when she met Amiel at a gas station in Lansing. #Quote by Jessica N. Watkins

#14. There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#15. A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#16. Think of what would happen to us ... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#17. Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#18. The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back. #Quote by Sherry Lansing

#19. Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#20. You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#21. To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#22. During the day enough light filtered through the canvas roofing so that the men could make their way about, but long before dusk the hut grew much too dark to see anything. Marston and Hurley experimented and found that, by filling a small container with blubber oil and draping pieces of surgical bandage over the edge as a wick, they could obtain a feeble flame by which a man might read if he were not more than a few feet away. By such methods they gradually eliminated one little misery after another. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#23. The ship reacted to each fresh wave of pressure in a different way. Sometimes she simply quivered briefly as a human being might wince if seized by a single, stabbing pain. Other times she retched in a series of convulsive jerks accompanied by anguished outcries. On these occasions her three masts whipped violently back and forth as the rigging tightened like harpstrings. But most agonizing for the men were the times when she seemed a huge creature suffocating and gasping for breath, her sides heaving against the strangling pressure.

More than any other single impression in those final hours, all the men were struck, almost to the point of horror, by the way the ship behaved like a giant beast in its death agonies. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#24. You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that. #Quote by Robert Lansing

#25. I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#26. A forbidding-looking place, certainly, but that only made it seem the more pitiful. It was the refuge of twenty-two men who, at that very moment, were camped on a precarious, storm-washed spit of beach, as helpless and isolated from the outside world as if they were on another planet. Their plight was known only to the six men in this ridiculously little boat, whose responsibility now was to prove that all the laws of chance were wrong - and return with help. It was a staggering trust. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#27. No brain is stronger than its weakest think. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#28. Whatever his mood - whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage - he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#29. Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of
physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#30. A mind is as strong as its weakest think. #Quote by Thomas Lansing Masson

#31. The whole undertaking was criticized in some circles as being too "audacious." And perhaps it was. But if it hadn't been audacious, it wouldn't have been to Shackleton's liking. He was, above all, an explorer in the classic mold - utterly self-reliant, romantic, and just a little swashbuckling. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#32. No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail. #Quote by Alfred Lansing

#33. In all the world there is no desolation more complete than the polar night. It is a return to the Ice Age - no warmth, no life, no movement. Only those who have experienced it can fully appreciate what it means to be without the sun day after day and week after week. Few men unaccustomed to it can fight off its effects altogether, and it has driven some men mad. #Quote by Alfred Lansing