Best Ice Breaking Quotes

#1. If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there's nothing better than breaking through. There's no better feeling than breaking through.

Ice Cube

#2. People versed in politics need not be told that the devil is in the detail, and tough solutions implying the use of force cannot produce a lasting long-term settlement.

Sergei Lavrov

#3. As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Lucian Freud

#4. The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

William Shenstone

#5. The author's mentor advises the NAKED method of breaking the ice at the first meeting: Name, Address, Kin, Experience, and Dreams.

Kevin Roose

#6. How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the djinn when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#7. In Antarctica, it looks like the total volume (of ice) is increasing and if that's true, that's probably why you're getting increased ice moving away from the center of the continent and therefore these big icebergs and stuff are breaking off.

Harrison Schmitt

#8. Sloane's laugh was brief and brittle, like ice breaking in an enchanted forest.

Seanan McGuire

#9. I'm pretty good with talking to girls if I have an introduction, but I'm the worst at trying to go pick up a girl. I'm really bad at breaking the ice. It's awkward!

Bryan Greenberg

#10. Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

Ashton Kutcher

#11. Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

Robert Benchley

#12. I don't care if the Koch brothers or Soros spend their money to promote one candidate or another. I care about members of Congress spending 30%-70% of their time raising money from .05% of us. Change the way we fund elections and you change the corruption.

Lawrence Lessig

#13. The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

Kingsley Amis

#14. Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#15. You can do ice-breaking by being cool.

Toba Beta

#16. For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects.

James Madison

#17. Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

Stephenie Meyer

#18. Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

Steven Wright

#19. I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.

Ice-T

#20. When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

Malala Yousafzai

#21. The world can fall to pieces around us, but in the end, we'll always make it back to us.

Cassia Leo

#22. Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it.

Munia Khan

#23. My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.

Richard Smalley

#24. Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the
ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don't think we can come back from that.

Jennifer Crusie

#25. Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

Ian Allison

#26. I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#27. When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

Maurice Sendak

#28. Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their anger? of the breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure?

Charlotte Bronte

#29. I started following the news and seeing what was happening around the world with the polar ice caps melting and temperatures breaking records. I became concerned as an animal on this planet but also as a father.

Don Cheadle

#30. Love well, if not wisely.

Rachel Caine

#31. To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

Ice Cube

#32. Tanka
Black-and-white Holsteins
Crowd downfield at feeding time,
Mingling their blotches.
It is like ice breaking up
In a dark, swollen river.

Richard Wilbur

#33. The sound of old winter ice breaking at spring's touch,

Raymond E. Feist