Ice Quotes - Page 19

• When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.

  Eliza Leslie

  Laughter, Sight, Laughing

  Eliza Leslie (2016). “The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners”, p.25, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW

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• Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.

  Lorene Cary

  Art, Children, Equality

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• It is cold down in Washington, DC. They had to use an ice scraper on John Boehner's face to get the tears off, it was so cold.

  David Letterman

  Tears, Use, Faces

  "John Boehner: from humble origin, fiscal cliff may be his undoing" by Ewen MacAskill, Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2012.

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• I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Yellow, Nuclear, Submarines

  "Traveling with the Stars: Buzz Aldrin". Interview with Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic like a self-absorbed ice queen.

  Megan Fox

  Queens, Thinking, Ice Queen

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• Thirdly, the explorationists are willing to only move equipment during the winter, which means they'll be on ice roads, and remove the equipment as the ice begins to melt, so that the fragile tundra is protected.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Humor, Mean

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• Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs".

  Paul A. Baran

  Past, Ice Cream, Entrepreneur

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 3, (p. 77), 1957.

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• I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.

  Enric Sala

  Dream, Two, Water

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• My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.

  Sanya Richards-Ross

  Ice Cream, Skittles, Raisins

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• Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Orange, Twists

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• The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Men, Ice Cream

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• When I'm sore, ice is my best friend. It really works. I take omega-3s every day, which helps with inflammation. And I try to eat things that won't inflame my joints, like fresh fruits and veggies, lean protein, and seafood.

  Kerri Walsh

  Trying, My Best Friend, Fruits And Veggies

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• I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

  Russell B. Long

  Fighting, Government, Hell

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• Winter is not an end. It is in transit. It is headed to bankruptcy. The sheriff will sell its stock for what he can get and an ice man will be the only bidder at the sale.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Winter, Men, Ends

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• I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.

  Yuna

  Winning, Games, Gold

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• It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Skating On Thin Ice, Water, Pirouettes

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “The Ringmaster's Daughter”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.

  Caroline Paul

  Morning, Ice Cream, Sandwiches

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• I can stick uphill ice, on my saucer

  Shane McConkey

  Sticks, I Can

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• Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Oxygen, Breathing, Frozen Lake

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.214, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night.

  Pedro

  Dark, Night, Glasses

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• Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Fire, Cold

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.194

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• If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't think of it when it's relevant. Seriously, punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Heart, Thinking, Ice Cream

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• My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.

  Deborra-Lee Furness

  Sweet, Ice Cream, Chocolate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
  How comes it then that this her cold so great
  Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
  But harder grows the more I her entreat?

  Edmund Spenser

  Love Is, Fire, Rejection

  Edmund Spenser (1957). “Minor poems”

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• All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert!

  Yoko Ono

  Ice Cream, Race, Wish

  Source: www.yashawallin.com

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