Frozen Quotes - Page 8

• From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, House, Black

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• I don’t know. D’you think? He’s pretty wide in the chest.” The girl looked at me, and I was frozen. So I said, “Yeah. I work out.” Violet asked me, “What are you? What’s your cup size?” I shrugged and played along. “Like, nine and a half?” I guessed. “That’s my shoe size.” Violet said, “I think he’d like something slinky, kind of silky.” I said, “As long as you can stop me from rubbing myself up against a wall the whole time.” “Okay,” said Violet, holding her hands up like she was annoyed. “Okay, the chemise last week was a mistake.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Girl, Wall, Mistake

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• I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Past, Men, Thinking

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.488, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

  Will Smith

  Distance, Night, Wings

  Song: Afro Angel, Album: Willennium

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• I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?

  Roy Jenkins

  Country, Believe, Broken

  Speech to Parliamentary Press Gallery, 9 June 1980, in 'The Times' 10 June 1980

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• Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? Be strong and of a good courage. Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes. . . . If death ends all, we cannot meet death better.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Strong, Thinking, Snow

  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.353

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• The team was going into transition. The team that we had could not continue to exist. Because of age, injury, it could not get to that same level. It had to change. I wish this team could have been frozen in time for 10 years, but that's not the reality.

  Geoff Petrie

  Team, Reality, Years

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• It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Inward, Places To Go

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• I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme
  I see the other half of me when I look in your eyes

  Gift of Gab

  Song, Eye, Looks

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• There was a young man of Quebec
  Who was frozen in snow to his neck,
  When asked, 'Are you Friz?'
  He replied, 'Yes I is,
  But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Snow, Necks

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• I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

  Deborah Levy

  Moving, Past, Cities

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• Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

  Keys, Different, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Dexter is a man who ... a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious, pre-verbal. Something very traumatic happened to him, he doesn't know what that is. And I think on some level he wants to know. He denies his humanity, he describes himself as someone who is without feeling, and yet I think that he maybe suspects - in a way that maybe isn't even conscious yet when we first meet him - that he is in fact a human being.

  Michael C. Hall

  Memories, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.

  Delta Goodrem

  Thinking, Eggs, Young

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• For as long as I can remember, I have loved snow and ice. As a result, I have spent most of my life exploring the Arctic region. These journeys have brought such joy and beauty to my life that I have dedicated myself to helping preserve these wonderful frozen places. More than ever before, I am driven to share my passion for the Arctic, a region whose health and stability have far-reaching consequences for us all.

  Lonnie Dupre

  Passion, Journey, Ice

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• Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Responsibility, Thinking, Decision

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• I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Paper, Architecture, Found

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• The world keeps turnin'
  It gets merry like a merry go 'round
  It gets cold like a frozen winter
  Well I change like summer fall
  But I know love is all in all
  Seeds we're always sowing
  The grace is always blowing
  We've just got to lift the sail
  And we're bound to hit the shore
  We'll finally calm this storm.

  Trevor Hall

  Summer, Christian, Fall

  Song: The World Keeps Turning

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• Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Get Away

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

  Steven Erikson

  One Day, Faces, Celebration

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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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• Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, People, Fiction

  Neil Gaiman, Various (2010). “The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House”, p.9, DC

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• Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.

  Tom Robbins

  Aquariums, Swim, Soul

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.194, Bantam

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• If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes.

  Frank O'Hara

  Meaningful, Eye, Hands

  Frank O'Hara (1967). “Meditations in an Emergency”, p.19, Grove Press

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• [in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

  Christopher Moore

  Grandmother, Self, Turkeys

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