Ice Quotes - Page 26

• The Japanese scientists just found a 25,000-year-old mammoth in the ice in Siberia, and they're about to clone it... You think the Japanese of all people would want nothing to do with prehistoric animals after what happened with Godzilla.

  Greg Giraldo

  Animal, Thinking, Years

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• News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.

  Randall Munroe

  Snow, Giving, Fleeing

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• [On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Character, Plot

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Ice is nice at any price.

  Mae West

  Nice

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.

  Sara Coleridge

  Expectations, Smoking, Feelings

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.145

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• No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Morning, Block, Savages

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• Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Ice Cream, Sorrow

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.

  Sojourner Truth

  Rights, Years, Want

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits.

  Eugene Sue

  Ocean, Book, America

  Eugène Sue (1940). “The Wandering Jew”

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• Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Kindness, Spring, Rain

  Fredrika Bremer (1856). “Hertha”, p.143

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• I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life. I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.

  Gautam Gambhir

  Morning, Stress, Night

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• As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.

  Shunroku Hata

  Army, Chinese, Overcoming

  "Objective: Limited", Time Magazine, December 20, 1943.

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• Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Cat, Simple, Ice Cream

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

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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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• Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Russia, Water

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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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• I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell true from false: dreams like light imprisoned in bright mineral caves; hot, heavy dreams; ice-age dreams; dreams like machines in the head.

  Anna Kavan

  Dream, Light, Age

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• My boss seems to think that my hair is gonna fall off & go into the ice cream. This hair ain't movin' my dude. 150mph on the highway on a street bike it doesn't move! What makes you think it's gonna move in a gelato shop?

  Pauly D

  Moving, Fall, Thinking

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• Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

  Ice Cube

  Giving, Pieces, Cubes

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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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• We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Summer, Moving, Ice Cream

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.86, Knopf Group E-Books

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• Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt

  Maxim Gorky

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• That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

  Tana French

  Beautiful, Morning, Moving

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• Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.

  Adrian Peterson

  Ice Cream, Work Out, Lucky

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