Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Ullman

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

William Lloyd Garrison

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

Ryan Stiles

Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.

Rudy Rucker

What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?

Wanda Sykes

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

Jostein Gaarder

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

Joseph Epstein

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

Kevin Keegan

We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Ralph Steadman

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

Sean William Scott

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.

Lily Tomlin

The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?

Randall Munroe

News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.

Si Robertson

Ice will ruin the tea. Waters it down. You can always get ice, or carry your ice in an ice container. You don't want to put it in your tea, it'll water it down.

Sachin Tendulkar

I really like Iceland. One of the nicest things about it is that I hardly ever had to reach for my credit card. There's practically nothing there to go shopping for.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

Todd Bridges

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

Sidney Crosby

I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.

Shel Silverstein

So what if nobody came? I’ll have all the ice cream and tea, And I’ll laugh with myself, And I’ll dance with myself, And I’ll sing, “Happy Birthday to me!

Tom Waits

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.

Shawn Ashmore

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

Rick Riordan

I woke to a bucket of ice water in my face. “Sadie! Get up,” Zia said. “God!” I yelled. “Was that necessary?” “No,” admitted Zia.

Steven Wright

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

I really love the smoked ice cream because it's so unexpected. Yet when you taste it, it's sort of familiar and otherworldly at the same time. I guess that's what I really like about what smoke does to food.

Red Buttons

The captain of the Titanic, who said to room service, Who sent for all this ice? Never got a dinner!

Thomas Brooks

The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.

Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

Richard Dormer

I had an outfit that was designed for minus 30 degrees, so I had to work with costume to strap ice packs all over me because I was boiling, even out on the glacier. I was constantly trying to unzip it and take off the hat. I was just sweating. I found it very hot.

Rupert Holmes

Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Steve Mariucci

[Mike] just loves [his] motorcycle and he would take it out too early [in Green Bay]. In Green Bay, you've got ice until June, and he'd take it out sooner than that. He can finish the rest of the story. Ask him about taking the bike out a little too early.