Winter Quotes - Page 38

• With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

  Bayard Taylor

  Children, Spring, Dark

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.408

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• Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

  Rene Char

  Heart, Bird, Battle

  René Char (2004). “This Smoke that Carried Us: Selected Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, May, Peril

  'Doctor Thorne' (1858) ch. 47

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• Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

  Arthur Ransome

  Summer, Book, Men

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Christian, Hurt

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.

  Jamie Sives

  Green, Bowling, Week

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• Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that it's not the middle of winter. I don't know if that level of immersion is normal, but it's now I do things. I like it. It works well for me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Rain, Writing, Long

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• A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.

  Willie Nelson

  Moving, Writing, Rivers

  Source: country4you.com

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• I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Play, Miami

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.

  Garrison Keillor

  Jobs, Zoos, Teaching

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was wrong now wasn't I? You see because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, and the blizzard would hit again!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Home, Humor

  "Black on Broadway". Documentary, Comedy, May 15, 2004.

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• I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.

  Terry Crews

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

  Dacia Maraini

  Depressing, Snow, Lacking

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Country, Swimming

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• The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Color, Soup, Sound

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• I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Dark, Owl, Gardening

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

  George Monbiot

  Christian, Atheism, Pagan

  "Why vegans were right all along" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2002.

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• I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary composition - similar to music - composed of autobiographical fragments. I'm really not telling the story of my life in a coherent narrative form.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Stories, Narrative

  Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com.

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• When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.

  Paul Auster

  Independent, America, Titles

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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• I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.

  Paul Auster

  Dream, Father, Book

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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• My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.

  Paul Auster

  Children, Father, Reading

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

  Helen Hayes

  Dream, Spring, Garden

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• Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beautiful, Song, Time

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

  Francis Bacon

  Dream, Astrology, Predictions

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• You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

  Dan O'Brien

  Writing, House, Looks

  Dan O'Brien (2007). “Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch”, p.171, Random House

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