Icy Quotes
131 quotes by 105 authors
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the…
— Bill Tilden
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The icy precepts of respect.
— William Shakespeare
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They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
— George Will
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But…
— James Dickey
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Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of…
— Thom Yorke
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Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation with a smile…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
— Vera Brittain
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train…
— Mary Higgins Clark
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There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist
— Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more.…
— Tracy K. Smith
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But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether…
— Saadat Hasan Manto
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When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
— Charles Evans Hughes
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For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style,…
— Hermann Maier
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We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair.…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a…
— Galway Kinnell
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What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.
— Jack Handey
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