Ice Quotes - Page 9

• Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Lying, Men, Fire

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• But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

  Robert Benchley

  Blow, Brain, Together

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Whoever came up with ice fishing must have had the worst marriage on the planet.

  Jeff Cesario

  Fishing, Planets, Worst

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• A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.

  Rex Stout

  Safety, Skating, Holes

  Rex Stout (2013). “Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One”, p.128, Bantam

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• I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

  T.C. Boyle

  Drinking, Believe, Dark

  T.C. Boyle (1999). “T.C. Boyle Stories”, p.185, Penguin

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• I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fall, Men, Oil

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• If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Average

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• I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.

  Michelle Kwan

  Smile, Years, Goes On

  "Encore Presentation: Michelle Kwan Looks for Gold in 2002". "People In The News", www.cnn.com. January 1, 2002.

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• The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

  Ashley Montagu

  Single Word

  Ashley Montagu (1969). “Man, His First Two Million Years: A Brief Introduction to Anthropology”, Greenwood

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• I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

  Paul Wesley

  Hockey, Years, Ice Hockey

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Mirrors, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Ice Cream, Massage

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• Sophie, my dog, is the high in the highlights of my life. Even through rain, snow, ice, and general laziness, she is the reason I smile when I wake up and a comfort to me continually. I could never have imagined that a now five-pound, six-ounce dog would take over my life. But it has happened, and I am happy to have someone to look after and share my moods with.

  Lauren Bacall

  Dog, Rain, Snow

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• I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.

  James Joyce

  Dog, Winter, Whales

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• A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Summer, Ocean, Frogs

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• Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Sexy, Alcohol, Cubes

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• I think it's just a coincidence that the North American teams are out. Most of us here have been playing in North America for a long time. Our knowledge of the big ice has been world championships here and there, same for the Canadians and the Americans. I don't see it as an advantage.

  Daniel Alfredsson

  Team, Thinking, America

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• From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the "global warming" of the 1990s, environmental alarms almost always turn out to be false. Few non-political scientists fear ozone loss, global warming, or acid rain. These are just issues that some people hope to use to reorder the lives of the rest of us.

  Harry Browne

  Cancer, Rain, Loss

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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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• By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ice Cream, Expression, Nurse

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• I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

  Agatha Christie

  Mother, Walking Away, Meals

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• When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Hot, Boxes

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• If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.

  Bruno Maag

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Vegetables

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• A goalies job is to stop pucks,.... Well yeah, thats part of it, but you know what else is?... Youre trying to deliver a message to your team that things are OK back here. This end of the ice is pretty well cared for. You take it now and go. Go! Feel the freedom in order to feel that dynamic, creative, offensive player and go out and score....That was my job. And it was to try to deliver a feeling.

  Ken Dryden

  Jobs, Team, Player

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• Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

  Douglas Coupland

  Winter, Long, Life Is Hard

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