Famous Quotes & Sayings

Red Smith

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

T. S. Eliot

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

Sylvia Earle

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

Rex Stout

A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.

Rick Riordan

The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I’m a barbarian).

Rebecca Solnit

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

W. G. Sebald

And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are found at the edge of the moraine, a few polished bones and a pair of hobnailed boots.

W. H. Auden

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

Yoko Ono

All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert!

Zygmunt Bauman

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.