Frozen Quotes - Page 7

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

Debra Winger

Tired, Looks, Trends

"Book World: Debra Winger on 'Undiscovered'". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

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Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

Steven Wright

Running, Ice, Ponds

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The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Stars, Night, Sky

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The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

Yasunari Kawabata

Moon, Blue, Ice

Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.77, Vintage

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When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

Margaret Atwood

Dream, Moving, Thinking

FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Feb 14, 2012

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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

William Shakespeare

Dream, Children, Air

William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

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In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

Parker J. Palmer

Kindness, Spring, Winter

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It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us.

Ian Mcewan

Photography, Godly, Years

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When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.

Bill Bryson

Memories, Fabric, Daylight

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It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

Jack London

Futility Of Life, Laughing, Effort

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Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.

Sam Harris

Christian, Cheating, Atheist

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Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential. You have a number of uncertainties in your melt right now. But they will always be there in one form or another. Always. Unlike molten glass, life can't be fixed or frozen into a pretty vase and placed on a shelf to gather dust.

Maria V. Snyder

Glasses, Dust, Numbers

Maria V. Snyder (2017). “The Glass Series Complete Collection: Storm Glass\Sea Glass\Spy Glass”, p.358, MIRA

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I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice.

Nicole Krauss

Lakes, Light, Ice

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He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.

Tina St. John

Heart, Warrior, Temptation

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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Moon, Ladders, Draws

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.293, Cambridge University Press

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In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!

Leonard Cohen

Girl, Sweet, Spring

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In my arms is a woman who has given me a Skywatcher's Cloud Chart, a woman who knows all my secrets, a woman who knows just how messed up my mind is, how many pills I'm on, and yet she allows me to hold her anyway. There's something honest about all this, and I cannot imagine any other woman lying in the middle of a frozen soccer field with me - in the middle of a snowstorm even - impossibly hoping to see a single cloud break free of a nimbostratus.

Matthew Quick

Soccer, Lying, Clouds

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.

Ellen Hopkins

Thinking, Knowing Love, Eternity

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You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is no salvation at all. Unless you sleep alone, you sleep with the enemy. Never come out of the storm. On the other hand, maybe you should. You don't have what it takes to go the hard way. Come out of the cold and sit by the fire. Let them warm you with the smiles and promise of friendship's fortune. Lose your edge. A soft body and chained mind suit you. Chances are you don't have what it takes to walk the frozen trail. Stay home and relax.

Henry Rollins

Kindness, Sleep, Home

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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.

Robert Frost

Spring, Clouds, Wind

Robert Frost (1977). “North of Boston: poems”, Dodd Mead

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With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.

Jack London

Song, Stars, Keys

Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, Jack London, Kenneth Grahame, Anna Sewell (2017). “Five Classic Animal Adventures: The Jungle Book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, The Call of the Wild, The Wind in the Willows, and Black Beauty”, p.257, Open Road Media

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They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

Nicholas Sparks

Shadow, Watches, Rooms

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Universe consists of frozen light.

David Bohm

Light, Universe

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I couldn't believe it. It was unbelievable, that's why. My face was like a frozen fish finger. All rigid and pale. (But obviously not with breadcrumbs on it.)

Louise Rennison

Believe, Faces, Pale

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His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city, and all it's lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.

Cassandra Clare

Peace, Heart, Light

Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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