Quotes About Winter Walks

#1. Winter walks up and down the town swinging his censer, but no smoke or sweetness comes from it, only the sour, metallic frankness of salt and snow.

Mary Oliver

#2. I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to Woodstock. It was a fertile musical area and time, and I played with a lot of different musicians there, including getting into women's music, and I ended up playing with Cris Williamson.

June Millington

#3. Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Glen Cook

#4. In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.

Bill Dedman

#5. The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve.

Pearl Zhu

#6. I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music.

James Iha

#7. He has only as much ground as his two feet take up, only as much of a hold as his two hands encompass - someone who falls asleep in the winter snow to freeze to death like a child, someone who does nothing but takes walks, yet who could take them anywhere, without moving.

Franz Kafka

#8. What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Pete Townshend

#9. I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

Audrey Niffenegger

#10. A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

Czeslaw Milosz

#11. If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

Christopher Paolini

#13. They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Honore De Balzac

#14. My role model is my dad.

Seann William Scott

#15. And that's when the rhinoceros drops from the sky.

Pittacus Lore

#16. It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

Paul Theroux

#17. In the summer I mowed their lawns for five dollars a week; in the winter I shovelled their walks for cups of hot chocolate; and in the fall I raked their leaves for the pure thrill of watching them burn.

Dan Wells

#18. A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

Mary Carolyn Davies