Cooling Quotes

• So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed; He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled; And the waters above the earth came down, The cooling waters came down.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Eye, Hands, Sea

  James Weldon Johnson (2000). “Complete Poems”, p.16, Penguin

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• I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

  Adam Savage

  Gasoline, Mixtures, Fierce

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• At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

  Simon van der Meer

  Team, Hockey, Study Group

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• What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

  Vernon Howard

  Break Through, Always Trying, Mind

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• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

  William James

  Pain, Spring, Loss

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

  Ezra Pound

  Passion, White, Giving

  Ezra Pound (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• Happiness is a myth we seek,
  If manifested surely irks;
  Like river speeding to the plain,
  On its arrival slows and murks.
  For man is happy only in
  His aspiration to the heights;
  When he attains his goal, he cools
  And longs for other distant flights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

  Beck

  Wind, Desert, World

  Song: The Golden Age, Album: Sea Change, 2002

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• If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Sweet, Song

  Henry Van Dyke, “If All The Skies”

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• He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

  William Shakespeare

  Cake, Baking, Lips

  William Shakespeare (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare”, p.206

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• Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman.

  Oleg Cassini

  Miracle, Grace, Desert

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• The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

  Chanakya

  Fire, Tree, Political

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• You know, back in the '70s — I remember the '70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.

  Ted Cruz

  Remember, Problem, Nasa

  "Cruz to CNN: Global warming not supported by data" by Dana Bash and Deirdre Walsh, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. February 20, 2014.

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• You are so to put forth the power that God has given you; you are so to give, and sacrifice to give, as to earn the eulogium pronounced on the woman, "She hath done what she could." Do it now. It is not a safe thing to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of a cold world. If you intend to do a mean thing, wait till tomorrow; if you are to do a noble thing, do it now,--now!

  Thomas Guthrie

  Mean, Sacrifice, Giving

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• I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.

  Carrie Fisher

  Baby, Anchors, Pie

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.

  Nancy Mitford

  Running, Baby, Food

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• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

  Bill Vaughan

  Stars, Dark, Race

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• Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

  Peg Bracken

  Smell, Pie, Kitchen

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

  Judy LaMarsh

  Feelings, Racing, Want

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 11, (p. 351), 1969.

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• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

  Clarence Day

  Life, Stars, Dark

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• The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.

  John Keats

  Running, Voice, Bird

  'On the Grasshopper and Cricket' (1817)

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• I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Pride, Curves

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.

  Emily Dickinson

  Drinking, Home, Ice Cream

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this climate change, and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

  John Raese

  Men, Volcanoes, Years

  "Raese to Bank on Cap and Trade Against Manchin" by Scott Conroy, Erin McPike, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as the ever-cooling background. At that time, space travel will no longer provide refuge because even Hell will have frozen over. We may then declare that the universe has died-not with a bang, but with a whimper.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Years, Space

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