Blizzard Quotes

• We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.

  Douglas Mawson

  Country, Home, Found

  Douglas Mawson (2010). “The Home of the Blizzard: An Australian Hero's Classic Tale of Antarctic Discovery and Adventure”, p.88, Wakefield Press

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• The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

  Carl Bernstein

  May, Information, Pressure

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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• I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

  Judy Collins

  Song, May, Written

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• The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.

  Leonard Cohen

  Order, Soul, World

  Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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• The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Forever, Lasts

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• Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Nature, Heart, Sky

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.130, Macmillan

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• A big blizzard proves there's no global warming in the same way being out of milk proves there's no such thing as cows.

  Dana Gould

  Cows, Way, Milk

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• A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

  Billy Collins

  Wind, Midnight, Tails

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.9, Random House

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• Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Earthquakes, Bipolar

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam

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• I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Taste, Driving, Ifs

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• Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Funny, Children, I Love My Kids

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• We faced blizzards, sub-zero temperatures, and of course dangerous snow conditions and vertiginous drops. That's what you get when you're working with fickle mother nature - you start out with a solid plan and it always changes, so you have to evolve and adapt.

  Travis Rice

  Mother, Zero, Snow

  Source: www.snowmagazine.com

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• From the shadow of domes in the city of domes,
  A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room
  And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up
  From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all
  There was to it.

  Mark Strand

  Book, Cities, Shadow

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.344, Knopf

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• It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was wrong now wasn't I? You see because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, and the blizzard would hit again!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Home, Humor

  "Black on Broadway". Documentary, Comedy, May 15, 2004.

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• The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Wind, Snow, Wicked

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• A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam.

  Doug Larson

  Prayer, School, Perfect

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• A hiker who was lost in a blizzard said he stayed alive by digging a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth. Today he was offered a job as President Obama's economic adviser.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Tunnels, Snow

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• Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?

  John Ashbery

  Night, Giving, Desert

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.1, Ardent Media

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• I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.

  Black Elk

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

  "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.

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• There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Cutting, Men

  Margaret Atwood, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott (1998). “Two Solicitudes: Conversations”, McClelland & Stewart

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• People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

  Amy Gerstler

  Laughter, Dark, Winter

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.75, Penguin

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• That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Weather, Snow, Cyclones

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death." The League of Frightened Men

  Rex Stout

  Drinking, Book, Sleep

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• Heavy blizzards start as a gentle and persistent snow.

  Mark Helprin

  Snow, Heavy, Gentle

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard,
  Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Hip Hop, Gold

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