I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If the earmark is reinstated, get ready for an avalanche of government waste coming in the form of a Democrat wish list. — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
Judgments are like a snowball. They stick to you. As time rolls along, the snowball becomes a boulder and then an avalanche — John Kuypers Copy Share Image
Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
“If this was the price of benefits, it was too high. He wanted his friend back, because that was a man worth… — S.P. Wayne Copy Share Image
“This was the sort of man who reached his destination with the implacable force of an avalanche and cared just as little… — Joana Starnes Copy Share Image
I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
“The few times I said to myself anywhere: ‘Now that’s a nice spot for a permanent home,’ I would immediately hear in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Things shouldn’t hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you’re highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and bang, you’re an avalanche statistic.… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
My father blamed me for my brother Gunther's death, for not bringing him home. He died in an avalanche as we descended… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The Unknown Travelers Lugged to the gray arbor, I have climbed this snow-stone on my face, My stick, but what, snapped the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
