Frozen Quotes - Page 17

• It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Light, Dancer, Snapshots

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• I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.

  Hannah Kent

  Home, Winter, Long

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Thinking, Pigs, Together

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• This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Lying, Past, Names

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• Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.

  Bill Cosby

  Men, White Man, Sitting

  "Obama Panders to Prove His Blackness, Echoes Bill Cosby But Nobody Notices". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 5, 2007.

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• Ten million years from now, when then sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen iceball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.

  Tug McGraw

  Years, Space, Guy

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• If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.

  Helen Dunmore

  Life, Garden, Eden

  Helen Dunmore (1988). “The Raw Garden”, Dufour Editions

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• All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.

  Theodore Roethke

  Memories, Men, Shine On

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• Be happy you guys. Be proud! You know what you are: you're God's frozen people.

  Bob Hope

  People, Guy, Proud

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• Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities

  Lee Iacocca

  Strong, Past, Reality

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.216, Bantam

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• The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Trying, Locks, Grit

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

  Anne Lamott

  True Friend, Mean, Artist

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.32, Anchor

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• A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again and again. Because it is that frozen moment. I think it tends to burn into your psyche. It becomes ingrained in your mind. A powerful picture becomes iconic of a place or a time or a situation.

  Steve McCurry

  Wall, Powerful, Thinking

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• I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Sleep, Butterfly

  William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.254, Oxford University Press, USA

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• February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Heaven, Mountain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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• My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie.

  Toni Morrison

  Moving, Eye, Winter

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.45, Random House

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• You're frozen when your heart's not open.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Heart

  "Song: "Frozen" ("Ray of Light")". 1998.

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• February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.

  Sara Coleridge

  Rain, Lakes, Frozen Lake

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1853). “Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme”, p.9

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• Man's books are but man's alphabet,
  Beyond and on his lessons lie -
  The lessons of the violet,
  The large gold letters of the sky;
  The love of beauty, blossomed soil,
  The large content, the tranquil toil:
  The toil that nature ever taught,
  The patient toil, the constant stir,
  The toil of seas where shores are wrought,
  The toil of Christ, the carpenter;
  The toil of God incessantly
  By palm-set land or frozen sea.

  Joaquin Miller

  Lying, Book, Men

  "The Larger College". "In Classic Shades, and Other Poems". Book by Joaquin Miller, 1890.

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• Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

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• The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

  Tucker Max

  Running, Easter, Children

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• When youre doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do whats expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.

  Dick Costolo

  Doing What You Love, Next, Roles

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• Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Food, Smell, Cooking

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, David Garnett, Richard Garnett (1994). “Sylvia and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett letters”, Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd

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• I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.

  Penelope Lively

  Believe, Maturity, Childhood

  Penelope Lively (2006). “Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

  Joanna Baillie

  Lying, Fire, Scorpions

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.45

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