The Ice Palace Quotes

#1. Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#2. Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.

Julie Burchill

#3. Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Dana Spiotta

#4. I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#5. [On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

Dorothy Parker

#6. I slept and the night rolled over into day like a dog. Another post-meridian awakening - sunshine on empty bottles, tangled clothes. I dozed while the temperature rose.

Matthew Stokoe

#7. When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

Howard Shore

#8. When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell

Dean Cavanagh

#9. I am so happy to see more and more people in this country are becoming addicted to cheese.

James Beard

#10. I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.

Jennifer Grey

#11. Somehow it always seems that the crummier the test, the higher the heritability it produces.

Peter Schonemann

#12. The Northern races are the tragic races
they don't indulge in the cheering luxury of tears.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

Herman Melville