Winter Quotes - Page 40

• When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Humorous, Home

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• At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Glasses, Wind, Practice

  Eknath Easwaran (1993). “Your life is your message: finding harmony with yourself, others, & the earth”, Nilgiri Pr

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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Fall, Autumn

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's Bone, and the film made from it. Larry Brown is terrific, all his work, but for me Joe in particular, also a good film, but a much better novel.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Book, Years, Lasts

  Source: thequietus.com

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• From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance

  Phil Harding

  Summer, Nature, Spring

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• Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Cities, Revolution

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.

  Mike Oldfield

  Summer, Rain, Sun

  Song: On Horseback

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• Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

  Charles Dickens

  Darkness, Scrooge

  Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.22

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• I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Believe, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin

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• Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.

  Gloria Gaither

  Clouds, Shining, Storm

  Gloria Gaither (1980). “Because He Lives”

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• I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.

  Jack McBrayer

  Summer, Knowing, World

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• During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

  Nina Kuscsik

  Sports, Fitness, Running

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• I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

  Jim Harrison

  Car, Lovely, Lasts

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

  Garrison Keillor

  Who We Are, Seasons

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• If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

  Rob Reiner

  Inspiration, Laughing, Credit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

  Grimes

  Writing, Dark, Music Is

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• This would be nice when we baptize people in the winter.

  Phil Robertson

  Nice, People, Would Be

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• In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Father, Cities

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much. It's the long-term trend that counts.

  Corey Flintoff

  Mean, Long, Climate

  "For Russian Farmers, Climate Change Is Nyet So Great". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• In the military it was camouflage for the desert or the winter. And now it's the duck hunting colors - I think it's "real tree." It's comfortable. It's stuff that's made out of comfortable material, OK, and I'm comfortable in it.

  Si Robertson

  Military, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

  Don Marquis

  Song, Writing, Two

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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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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• The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Climate, British, Wet

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

  Paul Auster

  Men, Trying, Different

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas for Transatlantica, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Cities are natural, that's why they're everywhere. It's not like there's only one city, and everybody's like 'What the f**k is this?' No, cities are all over the place. They're natural. You know what's not natural? You, in the middle of the mountains, in the middle of the winter.

  Joe Rogan

  Cities, Mountain, Natural

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