Icy Quotes
131 Icy quotes by 102 unique authors
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
— Robert Frost
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
— Robert Frost
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
— Robert Frost
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
— Robert Frost
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it…
— Robert Frost
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
— Robert Frost
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
— Robert Frost
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
— Robert Frost
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away…
— Robert Frost
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
— Robert Frost
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
— Robert Frost
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left…
— Robert Frost
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That,…
— Sylvia Earle
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Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.
— Joseph Epstein
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The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
— E. W. Howe
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded…
— Laura Linney
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Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined…
— Howard Nemerov
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When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
— Howard Nemerov
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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk…
— J. B. Priestley
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Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those…
— Markus Zusak
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Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And…
— Cornel West
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I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a…
— Markus Zusak
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I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it…
— J D Salinger
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This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt…
— John Keats
Who Wrote These Icy Quotes
102 authors contributed a total of 131 Icy Quotes, led by these top contributors: