Thawed Out Quotes

#1. His body language was that of someone frozen and not yet thawed out.

David Halberstam

#2. It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

William Faulkner

#3. If one person tells you you're a horse, they're crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, there's a conspiracy afoot. If 10 people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle." The point is that if several people are telling you the same thing, there is probably some truth in it.

Jack Canfield

#4. I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Roscoe Mitchell

#5. Do you have experience?" "Well, no. But I undress myself every day, and that seems to be the most important thing I need to know.

Cambria Hebert

#6. As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.

James Rosenquist

#7. The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.

Andrew Greeley

#8. silent those sweet lips, Once breathing eloquence That might have soothed a tiger's rage Or thawed the cold heart of a conqueror.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#9. Carelessness is a weakness that isn't tolerated in this order, he says in a voice that the average housewife would have to take out of the freezer at two in the afternoon if she wanted it thawed in time for supper.

Tom Robbins

#10. My soul cried out for Ash, for his courage and determination; for the way his eyes thawed when he looked at me, as if I were the only person in the world; for that beautiful, wounded spirit I saw beneath the cold exterior he showed the world.

Julie Kagawa

#11. 1 cup thawed onion stir fry and frozen bell pepper ½ lb

Stacey Turner

#12. It's impossible to imagine my mother like that. I cannot imagine her softened, thawed, decayed, becoming sweeter as she spoils. I imagine her trapped in a mirror instead. A permanent image of her locked into a rectangle of hard brightness, open-eyed.

Laura Kasischke

#13. The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#14. Know yourself as a snowdrift on the sand Heaped for two days, or three, then thawed and gone. (c.1050-c.1123)

Omar Khayyam

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

Czeslaw Milosz

#16. I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

Charles Bukowski

#17. Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.

Adam Jones

#18. And though the snow smothered the valley and the milk froze in the dairy, my soul thawed.

Hannah Kent

#19. Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass.

Edward Thomas

#20. A meal that can be packed and frozen and thawed is nothing you should desire
much less teach your kids to want.

Mireille Guiliano

#21. And they rode for home. His ice had thawed. Her fire had calmed. They'd thrived alone, but there'd been no happiness.
Together they were better, stronger, wiser, more faithful.
Together they'd forged their fire and ice into the warmth of true love.

Mary Connealy

#22. Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.

Du Fu

#23. That's as it should be, they tell us. A certain percentage, they tell us, must every year go, that way, to the devil, I suppose, so that the rest may remain chaste, and not be interfered with. A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#24. During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#25. For driving, a January thaw was always preferable to actual ice, but when it was over things froze more treacherously than before. And in its melting and condensing the roadside snow turned to clumps reminiscent of black-spotted cauliflower. Better never to have thawed.

Lorrie Moore

#26. Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

Ingmar Bergman

#28. Connor was....getting farther and farther ahead of me. I was frozen. And sometimes I feel like I haven't quite thawed.

Debra Dockter