Quotes About Blizzards

#1. How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.

David Mitchell

#2. People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

Amy Gerstler

#3. There's the slightly intoxicating feeling that accompanies the largest blizzards - the realization that there's a chance, increasing by every second, that you are about to be trapped by beauty.

Rick Bass

#4. For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#5. The winds have a force so terrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land.

Lennard Bickel

#6. Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure
wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Sinclair Lewis

#7. He felt now as if his entire body were recovering from frostbite, and he understood suddenly why people died in blizzards. It was not because they were cold and fell asleep. It was because it hurt too much to come back to life.

Rebecca Pawel

#8. The greatest blizzards start with the finest snow.

Mark Helprin

#9. I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. So we could have roses in December. Someone did not add, So we could have blizzards in June and food poisoning when there was nothing to eat.

Amy Bloom

#11. Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard,
Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

Ghostface Killah

#12. Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.

Sara Raasch

#13. Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents,
through narrow passes.
But will he know where to find you,
Recognize you when he sees you,
Give you the thing he has for you?

John Ashbery

#14. By the time he went to work for James J. Hill in 1889, he had survived Mexican fevers, Indian attack, Upper Michigan mosquitoes, and Canadian blizzards. He had been treed by wolves on one occasion; he

David McCullough

#15. That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#16. Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

Ashly Lorenzana

#17. Snow harder! Snow more!
Snow blizzards galore!
I can't get enough
Of the fluffy white stuff!
Snow! Snow! Snow!
Snow a ton! Snow a heap!
Snow ten feet deep!
I wouldn't cry
If it snowed til July.
Snow! Snow! Snow!

Paul F. Kortepeter

#18. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.

David Mitchell

#19. I have hitched and hiked over every state and half the nations, through blizzards and under rainbows, in deserts and cities, backward and side-ways, upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber.

Tom Robbins

#20. Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

Dean Koontz

#21. Heavy blizzards start as a gentle and persistent snow.

Mark Helprin

#22. You are water, you understand - electrified water. The elements and balance of ocean water match the blood in your human body. Humans were made from the ocean. This is one of the greatest secrets of creation.

Barbara Marciniak

#23. Ove is fifty-nine. He drives a Saab. He's the kind of man who points at people he doesn't like the look of, as if they were burglars and his forefinger a policeman's flashlight.

Fredrik Backman

#24. This isn't me missing you. This is me missing the me I used to be.

Pleasefindthis

#25. Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side - if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

Jacqueline Woodson

#26. You won't let anything bad happen to me, will you, Garrett?"
A lump the size of Massachusetts lodges in my throat. I swallow hard and try to speak past it.
"Never.

Elle Kennedy

#27. I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

Luke Benward

#28. To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home

Theodor W. Adorno

#29. Being closed in makes us edgy because it reminds us of our vulnerability before the elements; we can't escape the fact that life is precarious.

Kathleen Norris

#30. My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

Rowan Atkinson

#31. I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

Emily Mortimer

#32. A building get torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that it is true about everything - family, friends, feelings - but now I know that sometimes if love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.

Sarah

#33. Being a monster hasn't saved anyone. She choked on her sob, gasping for air.
He pulled her into his arms, and she finally let herself be hugged.

Debra Anastasia

#34. When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.

Edsger Dijkstra