Icy Quotes - Page 5

• Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Circles, Years, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.181

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• It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

  Robert Frost

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

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• Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

  Robert Frost

  Thinking, Voting

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• There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

  Robert Frost

  Kindness, Heart, Compassion

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 578, 1895.

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• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  Robert Frost

  Business, Drinking, Alcohol

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• Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

  Robert Frost

  Moving, Circles, Style

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• Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

  Robert Frost

  Money, Remember, Cents

  Further Range (1936) "Hardship of Accounting"

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• They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

  Robert Frost

  Changed, Find Me

  Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

  Robert Frost

  Cowardice, Engaging

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Sports, Play, Tennis

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• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Ears, Reader

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?

  Josemaria Escriva

  Snow, Saint, Ponds

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• A single raised eyebrow. "You've defected, sweetheart. No use worrying about the big, bad wolf now." She was aware of Judd speaking, but her attention never shifted off the man who was a predator, for all that he wore human skin. When he peeled open and held out a bar of some kind, she took it, aware low energy levels could be dangerous when it came to her ability to keep a handle on the cold fire. "Thank you." A faint smile, a strange amusement in those icy eyes. "You're welcome." It was the most polite interaction they'd ever had.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Men, Fire

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• It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy. Just cold enough that she could justifiably wear all her favorite clothes—cardigans and tights and leg warmers.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Clothes, Legs, Tights

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

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• If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Hands, Experience, Fingers

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

  Graham Joyce

  Perfect, Nuance, Rich

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• I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness

  James Lovegrove

  Stars, Lasts, Cosmos

  James Lovegrove (2009). “The Age of Ra: Special Edition”, p.136, Solaris

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• The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Men, Cells

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• Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.

  Bernie Siegel

  Morning, Winter, Jogging

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• A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium. Physical labor may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Men, Opportunity

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.17, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Skiing, Slopes

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• Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rain, Flower, Fall

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Happiness, Joy, Storm

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• I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.

  Craig Stone

  Sex, Couple, Block

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