Frozen Quotes - Page 10

• On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading, her favorite of which was from Kafka: 'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

  Haven Kimmel

  Wall, Book, Reading

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.127, Anchor

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• Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

  Bob Dylan

  Beach, Memories, Crazy

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder you've so few friends; you're unbelievable!

  Peter Cook

  Flower, Bangs, Burgers

  "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. December 10, 1967.

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• Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, Ice, Law

  Diane Setterfield (2011). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.24, Hachette UK

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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 would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.

  J. D. Salinger

  Zoos, New York, Home

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

  Winston Churchill

  Hammered, Peg

  Winston Churchill (1955). “The World Crisis”

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• Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Cat, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

  C. S. Lewis

  Past, Rays, Flow

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Broken Heart, Kissing

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Winter, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

  Dave Eggers

  Life, Dream, Children

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

  David Clement-Davies

  Tree, Deer, Sound

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• Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

  Alan Lightman

  Live Life, Butterfly, Sadness

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.47, Vintage

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• The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Night, Sky

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• What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

  Elon Musk

  Ice, Ecosystems, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us.

  Ian Mcewan

  Photography, Godly, Years

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• You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

  Will Self

  Force Fields, Personality, Mediocrity

  "Chris the saviour". www.theguardian.com. March 9, 1997.

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• I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

  Debra Winger

  Tired, Looks, Trends

  "Book World: Debra Winger on 'Undiscovered'". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

  Steven Wright

  Running, Ice, Ponds

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• In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Kindness, Spring, Winter

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• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Air

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

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• When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Moving, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Feb 14, 2012

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• All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Men, Air

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected works in one volume”

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• The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Moon, Blue, Ice

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.77, Vintage

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• Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.

  William Carlos Williams

  Cat, Wind, Dying

  William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.109, New Directions Publishing

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