Harsh Environment Quotes

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. There's also a negative side.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need wind, lots of it, strong and unrelenting. Antarctica fits the bill.

El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.

I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to junior high school there. Girls in Brooklyn have to be tough - I mean real tough - just to get by. It's life in the combat zone.

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.

Chicago prides itself on being a mean city.

Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Sounds like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.

There was no glam squad, whatsoever. There were no dressing rooms. There were no bathrooms. Let's start at our base level. We didn't have toilet paper. We went to the woods to use the bathroom.

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.

The film industry is actually a tough place to survive.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.