Quotes with ice-flowers

Quotes 81 till 100 of 118.

  • Boris Pasternak Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
    LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bee Wilson Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Buzz Aldrin Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bobby Bragan Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.
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  • Vicki Baum Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
    Vicki Baum
    Austrian writer (1888 - 1960)
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  • Auguste Rodin The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Lewis Thomas The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings The earth laughs in flowers.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Louis de Bernieres The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 119
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Rita Mae Brown The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bill Kurtis The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Juvenal The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Josh Billings The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Octave Mirbeau The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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  • Louis Aragon There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Jean Genet There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Sir John Bowring There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.
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