Sentimental memories were like sugar-water icicles.

At drama school I learned the Stanislavski technique, which uses sentimental memories and bits of your past to put real emotion into the scene.

— Daniel Mays

“Some people, I am told, have memories like computers, nothing to do but punch the button and wait for the print-out. Mine is more…

— Wallace Stegner

“Of course, when poking the Winter prince, one had to proceed with caution. There was a fine line between irritation and having icicles hurled…

— Julie Kagawa

I'm glad that life isn't like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly came alive…

— Matthew Perry

In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

— Edith Wharton

My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.

— Bob Monkhouse

What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

— Dogen

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

— Virginia Woolf

“I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.”

— Mary E. Pearson

Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The snow has left the cottage top; The thatch moss grows in brighter green; And eaves in quick succession drop, Where grinning icicles have…

— John Clare

Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient…

— Julian Barnes

You've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears.

— Meat Loaf

“Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow movement, it…

— Balroop Singh

“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle;…

— David Wroblewski