#pole

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ↗

— Vicki Baum

#brings #cold #fame #ice #loneliness

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#baby #book #cannibal #genuine #lovingly

I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters. ↗

— Delta Burke

#appearances #down #fighters #fire #had

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#center #community #going #newspaper #poles

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

— Will Steger

#dog #impossible #much #north #north pole

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#avoid #declare #even #heartily #i

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#historical #institutions #losing #new #old

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay. ↗

— Chris Martin

#approaching #being #coldplay #dynamite #get

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

— Andrew Mason

#deals #guys #hair #laser #lessons

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles. ↗

— Franka Potente

#built #carefully #change #choose #director