Pole Quotes

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward

Life, Humor, Sense

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Ramakrishna

God, True, Important

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust

Others, Practice, Hidden

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
Ayrton Senna

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
Marlon Brando

Women, End, Long

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
John Dryden

Money, May, Soul

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Daily, Down, Place

My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.
Stephen Harper

End, Either, Interest

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Denzel Washington

Women, Hollywood, Bottom

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!
Joseph Banks

Second, Turn, Glorious

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
Barry Commoner

Food, Through, Poor

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.
Wentworth Miller

Family, Sense, Makes

I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.
Carlton Fisk

Wind, Question, Fair

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!
Greg Kinnear

Idea, Order, Color

I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year.
Jimmy Fallon

Help, Year, Santa

So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.
Melissa Rosenberg

Work, Women, Home

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
Werner Herzog

Ego, Ambition, Vision

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.
Andrew Mason

Hair, Guys, Dancing

I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.
Chris O'Dowd

Avoid, Parties, Showbiz

The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.
Heather Mills

Strong, Put, Walk

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.
Sergei Bubka

Involved, Event, Vault

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
Sergei Bubka

Work, Best, Person

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
Robert Falcon Scott

Women, Regret, Die

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
Robert Falcon Scott

Fear, Done, Journey

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.
Robert Ballard

History, Live, Living

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
Alain Prost

Win, Effort, Possible

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
Andrew Bogut

Football, Different, Two

On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen time.
Charisma Carpenter

Time, Far, High

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
Ernest Shackleton

Eyes, Last, Lead

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
Barry Manilow

Trying, Dangerous, Disease

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