Cold Shoulder Quotes

• that arctic blast you're feeling? it's the chill coming off my cold shoulder

  Michele Jaffe

  Feelings, Cold, Chill

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• Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.

  Robert Orben

  Successful, Fortune Cookie, Common

  Robert Orben (1979). “2500 jokes to start 'em laughing”, Doubleday Books

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• at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder

  Gregory Maguire

  Giving, Cold, Shoulders

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• Give a cold shoulder to cold callers. Never invest in anything based on a phone call from someone you don't know or whose office is a post office box.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Phones, Giving, Office

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• Most people know more as they get older:
  I give all that the cold shoulder.

  Philip Larkin

  Wisdom, People, Giving

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• All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, England

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.548

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• Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Celi, call Nom back and tell him of my need for purple!

  Shannon Hale

  Blue, Color, Purple

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.69, A&C Black

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• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  William H. Gass

  Patience, Time, Children

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• That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Moving, Golf

  Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

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• There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like, waiting for the storm before you came and kneeled in the water? It was nothing. Watch after you leave the water, now cold and regretful, miles from home, certain of the belt on your backside, the cold shoulder, the extra chores; watch. Watch the water heal itself of your presence--not to repair injury but to offer itself again should you care to risk another strapping [...].

  Paul Harding

  Father, Home, Heal Itself

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• The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements are so infernally dull.... our business needs massive transfusions of talent. And talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, People, Community

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• Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?” With that, she sighed. “Shouldn’t you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?” He laughed. “That’s funny. I’ll have to remember that.” “I’m not being funny. I’m being serious.” “Oh, because we’re so good-looking

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mirrors, Giving, Waiting

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• To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.

  Frederick Buechner

  Bored, Cold, Moments

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