Frozen Quotes

• A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Reading, Ice

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• I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Badass, Bad Ass

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.282

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• Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Soul

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• A poem is a frozen moment
  melted by each reader for themselves
  to flow into the here and now.

  Hilde Domin

  Flow, Moments, Here And Now

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• It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Creative, Fleeting, Moments

  Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”

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• Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Art, Water, Skating

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

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• As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grief, Heart, Mountain

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.64

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• A stone is frozen music

  Pythagoras

  Stones

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• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  Benjamin Rush

  Water, Hot, Mirth

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.119

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• Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

  Woody Allen

  Dinner, Tvs, Bother

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• Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

  Mark Twain

  Cold, Inches, Thermometers

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spring, Rain, Fall

  Ernest Hemingway, Robert E. Gajdusek (1978). “Hemingway's Paris”, Scribner Book Company

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• We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Kindness, Ignorance, Space

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

  Bob Taft

  Jobs, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Doe, Arguing

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• Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

  George Will

  Apples, Pie, Cheesy

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• We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

  Ernst Toller

  Revolution, Situation, Acknowledge

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• Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

  Richard Meier

  Rome, Cities, Half

  "Building in Rome, no holiday / The eternal city wants to keep its architecture fixed in time, but the Ara Pacis marks a renaissance of modern era" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Architecture in general is frozen music.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Design, Architecture

  'Philosophie der Kunst' (1809)

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• The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name.

  Jerry Rubin

  Problem, Fame, Can Do

  "Growing (Up) at 37".

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• It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Sex, Assets, Virgins

  The Women act 1, sc. 1 (1937)

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• I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

  Sheena Easton

  Thinking, Botox, Used

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• The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Men, America

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.9, VM eBooks

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• The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Memories, Sky, White

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