Chilly Quotes

• Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

  Fritz Leiber

  Warm, Servitude

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Swords in the Mist”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Your chilly stars I can forgo, this warm kind world is all I know.

  William Johnson Cory

  Stars, World, Kind

  'Mimnermus in Church'

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• The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

  Libba Bray

  Night, Wind, Secret

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laugh, and I couldn't stop looking at her. It was a little bit chilly, and her cheeks were pink, and her dark hair was flowing around her face. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that. Sometimes our arms brushed against each other as we walked, and it was like I could feel the touch for minutes after it happened.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Dark, Hair, Laughing

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• Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

  David Bowie

  Pain, Sadness, Bully

  Song: Fame D Bowie J Lennon C Alomar, Album: Young Americans, 1975

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• A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

  James M. Barrie

  Fall, Past, Interesting

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• Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

  Milan Kundera

  Silence, Comfort, Stories

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.

  Kathleen Quinlan

  Winter, Weather, Bahamas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

  Amy Tan

  Feelings, Magic, Kind

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

  George F. Kennan

  Lonely, Believe, Long

  GEORGE F. KENNAN (1967). “MEMOIRS 1925-1950”

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• It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the hope of finding dinner while avoiding being the main course.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Night, Air

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• What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

  Anna Neagle

  Country, Rain, Flower

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• Organizations have to come to grips with the fact that tests of adaptive capability aren't always pleasant. Learning can be a powerful emotional event, and organizations have to be cognizant of that. They must understand that those who complete high-quality executive education programs are going to see the organization with fresh eyes after they return. Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Powerful, Eye, Emotional

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wind, People, World

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.130, Spectra

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• Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, Snow, Heaven

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.99, Taylor & Francis

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• I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Dark, Winter, Owl

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chilly waters of verisimilitude, no matter how often it is demonstrated that photographs can and do lie.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Photography, Real, Lying

  Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Lucy R. Lippard, St. Louis Art Museum (1997). “Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• If you meet a cross-eyed person
  you must plunge into the grass,
  alongside the chilly ants,
  fish through the green fingernails
  and come up with the four-leaf clover.

  Anne Sexton

  Magic, Four, Green

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

  George Gissing

  Rain, Doors, Shining

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Night, Light

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Summer, Artist, Snow

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• I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There's leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane

  Hanshan

  Book, Thinking, Moon

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• Who knew Demon Child would have such a normal name? I expected something exotic like Serena or Destiny or the Evil One That Comes in the Night to Make Us Chilly.

  Darynda Jones

  Children, Night, Destiny

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

  Harry Graham

  Nice, Heart, Fire

  Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Tender-Heartedness"

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