Ice Quotes - Page 38

• 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, Law, Two

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

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• It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Sadness, Ice Cream

  "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.

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• I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ice Cream, Nurse, Six

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.51, Vintage

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• When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Blue, Sky

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• I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, 'If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field work

  Randy Pausch

  Ice Cream, Fields, Cream

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• Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the bartender, Hilarity, hauls off and squirts me in the face with a seltzer bottle, ruining my n ice new camel hair suit, dousing my monocle and my watch fob, soaking my cravat. So, do I let him have what for, and blow my top? I do not. I simply say: Sorry, I believe I said 'very dry'.

  Chip Kidd

  Cousin, Sorry, Believe

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• A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

  Ray Bradbury

  Good Night, Sleep, Chocolate Ice Cream

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Apr 10, 2014

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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

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• I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

  Katherine Paterson

  Ice Cream, Revision, Milk

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• Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.

  A. S. Byatt

  Fire, Frost, Warm

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• I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

  Helen Fielding

  Queens, Men, Ice Queen

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• Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

  T. S. Eliot

  Greatness, Cake, Tea

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 84 (1917)

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• Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 - two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

  Ally Carter

  Ice Cream, Two, Numbers

  "I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You". Book by Ally Carter, April 1, 2006.

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• No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mistake, Mean, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2015

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• Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

  Saigyō

  Winter, Rocks, Water

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• And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Holiday, Mean

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

  Tori Amos

  Ice Cream, Giving, Lucifer

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• There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With his seat in the meat And his face in the fish And his big hairy paws In the buttery dish, He's nibbling the noodles, And munching the rice, He's slurping the soda, He's licking the ice. And he lets out a roar If you open the door. And it gives me a scare To know he's in there-- That Polary Bear In our Fridgitydaire.

  Shel Silverstein

  Doors, Giving, Scare

  Shel Silverstein, “Bear In There”

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• the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Night, Crackers, Boxes

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3101, e-artnow

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• And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

  Harlan Ellison

  Country, Tears, Rats

  Drew Ford, Harlan Ellison (2016). “Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny”, p.83, Courier Dover Publications

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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, Sky

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

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• Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

  Charles Baxter

  Art, Ice Cream, Forget

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.109, Vintage

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• I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.

  Dorothy Allison

  Heart, Warrior, Turtles

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• Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  War, Flower, Adversity

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