Quotes About Thin Ice

#1. I just know that when I'm walking on the wafer-thin ice of happiness, I'm terrified, so terrified that I wish it was over, that I was already in the water.

Jo Nesbo

#2. I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

Patrick DeWitt

#3. He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.

Bruce Crown

#4. I knew I was treading on thin ice. Criticism of anyone's art, no matter how good the intentions, could be risky business.

Emma Scott

#5. Unless you learn to control your thoughts, you will never be able to control your actions; and if you can't control your actions, you are walking on thin ice.

Bohdi Sanders

#6. Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

Pete Domenici

#7. The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

Eartha Kitt

#8. Republicans are already on seriously thin ice, having presided over an era of unprecedented spending and consistently failing to articulate conservative principles on a wide variety of issues. But what Obama has in store will make President Bush appear, in retrospect, like a libertarian.

David Limbaugh

#9. If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.

Mercedes Lackey

#10. I'm not melancholic,' she protested, but the thin ice was under her feet again, the uncertainties. or was it that she always wanted a little more than she had, no matter how much she had?

Patricia Highsmith

#11. Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#12. A wise person is on firm ground,
a fool is on thin ice,
and an evil person is already drowning.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Eugenio Montale

#14. Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way, and play the game of life with your heart?

Yoko Ono

#15. You are walking on thin ice - the ice of what remains of the trust between us - carrying the weight of immeasurable guilt.

Prashant Chopra

#16. the constant shower of the sun's mane
erases the footprints on thin ice
do not fear deception for the world lies atop deception

~Toushiro Hitsugaya

Tite Kubo

#17. I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.

Neill Blomkamp

#18. I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.

Garry Shandling

#19. 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.

Jostein Gaarder

#20. If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Karin Gillespie

#21. This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.

Asger Jorn

#22. If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance!

Laurie Strongin

#23. Faith is only as valid as its object. You could have tremendous faith in very thin ice and drown ... You could have very little faith in very thick ice and be perfectly secure.

Stuart Briscoe

#24. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. As your trusted Indian scout, it is important for me to warn you that you are now on perilously thin ice

Craig Johnson

#26. 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.

Zygmunt Bauman

#27. And now his cock wanted back in the game. Fuck.
Yes, please.
Jesus, when your brain started talking to your cock, you were on some fucking really thin ice.

Laura Kaye

#28. It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Franklin P. Jones

#29. When you grow up in the saddest chapter of someone else's story, you're forever skating on the thin ice of their memories.

Carys Bray

#30. Now winter downs the dying of the year,
And night is all a settlement of snow;
From the soft street the rooms of houses show
A gathered light, a shapen atmosphere,
Like frozen-over lakes whose ice is thin
And still allows some stirring down within.

Richard Wilbur

#31. Shadows." The world seemed darker when he said it.
"Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.

George R R Martin

#32. Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

Marge Piercy

#33. I have always loved the many moods of the sky at Rocky Flats. Turquoise and teal in summer, fiery red at sunset, iron gray when snow is on the way. The land rolls in waves of tall prairie grass bowed to the wind, or sprawling mantles of white frosted with a thin sheath of ice in winter.

Kristen Iversen

#34. I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Dick Cavett

#35. A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ...
Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?

Ian Fleming

#36. A weird sequence of weather events had left a thin skin of ice around every tree and branch and twig. Each time the wind blew, a splintery groan issued from all directions at once.

Jennifer Egan

#37. Reality is a thin skim of ice over a deep lake of dark water.

Stephen King

#38. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel.

Ian Fleming

#39. He did not turn. Embracing his sister, he stepped off the bank, onto the ice. He walked out into the centre, where the ice was thin. His sister's head lay on his shoulder. They stood there for a moment, as the ice groaned and cracked. Then it gave way.

Geraldine Brooks

#40. The ice," Leon said to thin air over my head, "has now officially broken.

Lili St. Crow

#41. It was a sense that reality was thin. I think it is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves. But

Stephen King

#42. I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

John Updike

#43. I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

Stephen King

#44. Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Werner Herzog

#45. The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

Stephen Richards

#46. He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.

Ernest Hemingway,

#47. The sun rose brilliant and quickly wore away the thin layer of ice that covered the water, and all the warm air was quivering with the steam that rose up from the quickened earth.

Leo Tolstoy

#48. tree with a tall thin glass of minted ice tea and a

Denise Nicholas

#49. She looked from her son to Bill and back to her son again, touched by wonder that was mostly simple perplexity but partly a fear so thin and sharp that it found its way deep into her inner heart and vibrated there like a tuning-fork made of clear ice.

Stephen King

#50. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.

Carol Goodman