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Quotes About Pole

Midnight: The Pole of the hours; a pincushion on which sparkle all the seconds of a day.
~ Elbert Hubbard
We're headed for the South Pole!" Gazzy jumped over the low threshold into our room from the boys' room next door. "And it's, like, so far south that it's the bottom of the whole world.
~ James Patterson
out I was going to crash the car into a telephone pole.
~ Janet Evanovich
You cannot expect a driver who has just lost a shot at pole position to run around with a smile on his face. You need to accept that he is upset in a different way to how we are upset.
~ Toto Wolff
So listen -- one way to lower the flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice it's original height.
~ David Foster Wallace
Zawadzi? o ni? wzrokiem przelotnie. Ziewn??. Ach, to ju? by?o niewiarygodne! Ta maskarada! Przed kim? Po co? Ta ostro?no??... jakby nie pozwala? osobie swojej wzi?? pe?nego udzia?u w tym, co robi?... ale wida? by?o ?e ca?e kr??enie to do niej zmierza, do niej! O... a teraz oddala si? w stron? domu, ale nie, na pole wyszed? daleko, daleko, przystaj?c, rozpatruj?c, niby ?e to spacer...
~ Witold Gombrowicz
I had no sense of direction. Once, driving on the Sunrise Highway, Harlene said her parents were away and we could go to her house and use the bedroom. Inflamed by the idea, I made a quick U-turn and knocked over a telephone pole.
~ Woody Allen
I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in temperature and more daylight hours.
~ Charles Duke
Because Lyra now realized, if she hadn't done so before, that all the fear in her nature was drawn to Mrs. Coulter as a compass needle drawn to the Pole.
~ Philip Pullman
round my place on the telephone pole too." "Did you take it down?" "'Course I did, what do you think I am?" She seems offended I'd even ask, but with Vee, honestly, I kind of had to. "I expect that guy who sent me the
~ Rachel Caine
there isn't even a pole at the North Pole, and if global warming continues, there won't be any ice, either.
~ Rachel Cohn
Big family?" "One grandfather and one cousin." "How do they feel about the nature-therapy thing?" She grinned. "you make it sound like I'm a pole dancer.
~ Unknown
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
BELL WOOD CAME OVER, a big bluff man with a mustache and a gap between his two square front teeth; he wore round gold-rimmed glasses like Teddy Roosevelt. He had a cup of coffee in his hand and nudged the leg of Lucas's chair. "Sorry about Pole. He can be an asshole." "I picked up on that," Lucas said, looking up. "You in decent shape with him?
~ John Sandford
Fuck Morton K. Brigham and Yale University," Clover said. "You ever been to that place? You have to have a pole stuck up your ass before you're allowed to walk on campus. Seriously, they have a booth with poles. Before they hire you for a job, they stick a second pole up there.
~ John Sandford
Adventure, and not being provided for so cold a Voyage, were all frozen to death; the young Lady onely, by the light of her Beauty, the heat of her Youth, and Protection of the Gods, remaining alive: Neither was it a wonder that the men did freeze to death; for they were not onely driven to the very end or point of the Pole of that World, but even to another Pole of another World, which
~ Margaret Cavendish
If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.
~ Carlos Mencia
Behind her smile, her thoughts whirred like a pole lathe, back and forth, shaving the layers.
~ Nicola Griffith
I think anyone who builds a house without a pole sliding into a secret room is just plain crazy.
~ Obert Skye
Interestingly, because of the wobbling motion of the Earth's axis (called "precession"), the celestial pole will draw even closer to Polaris (closest in 2100 AD), but then as time wears on it will gradually draw away from it. In fact, in about 12,000 years our descendants will have Vega as the North Star.
~ Unknown