Frozen Quotes - Page 18

• It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

  Olive Schreiner

  Cutting, Men, Ice

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “Woman and Labor”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.

  Shunroku Hata

  Army, Ice, Chinese

  "Objective: Limited", Time Magazine, December 20, 1943.

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• Frozen peas can be shelled very fast with a wringer-type washer. Put a pan on one side of the wringer to catch the peas and the pods go on through. You will think peas will go through the wringer and be mashed the moment the pod hits the wringer, but they will pop out before they go through. A very fast job can be done this way.

  Heloise

  Jobs, Thinking, Sides

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• When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Air, Blood, Veins

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.79, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true - although it sounds good! - but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.

  Bobby Hull

  Two, Hands, Parent

  "One on One with Bobby Hull". www.hhof.com. December 11, 2001.

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• The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, Hero

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

  Lorrie Moore

  Character, Different, Stories

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• Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Change, Opportunity, Ideas

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

  Sadie Jones

  Wall, Add, Environment

  "My space". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2008.

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• What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

  Rajneesh

  Teaching, Like Love, Quality

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• [Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Principles, Action, Social

  "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.

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• Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

  Myron Scholes

  Bird, Sometimes, Worms

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• Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.

  Susan Sontag

  Movie, Art, Ideas

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• Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

  Harold Pinter

  Art, Giving, Might

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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• There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.

  Meher Baba

  Past, Worry, Ego

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• The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Fall, Snow, Fields

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• There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

  Jonas Mekas

  Way, Break, Conventions

  Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.7, Columbia University Press

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• Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not.

  William Zinsser

  Mom, Dog, Food

  "Hot Dog Road Trip: A Patriotic Party Plan", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2009.

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• Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead, sitting there forever, frozen. So, I'm not a great one for these modernist, post modernist, post colonial labels. I think they serve certain purpose. You do need some kind of sign post here and there, but it can also become an end in itself.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Forever, Here And There

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open and white teeth glinstening, dark glossy hair and deep blue sky and unrelenting light, everyone drowning in light - everything so clear and perfect I'm sure it must already be a memory, or a dream.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Memories, Dark

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• Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Girl, Running, Baby

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• You can find me in the frozen mood section.

  Henry Rollins

  Mood, Find Me, Sections

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• We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab frozen dinners and McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Real, Moving, Simple

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• Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?-- Only the sorry cost Of the lovely thing, ah, never the thing itself! The level flood that laves The hot brow And the stiff shoulder Is at our temples now. Gone is the fever, But not into the river; Melted the frozen pride, But the tranquil tide Runs never the warmer for this, Never the colder. Immerse the dream. Drench the kiss. Dip the song in the stream.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Running, Dream, Song

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.95, Library of America

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• Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Carpe Diem, Government, Ice

  1936 Renomination acceptance speech, Philadelphia, 27 Jun.

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