Quotes About Glacial

Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations

Cold? I should be colder if I were dead!

Khouri had never really given much thought to the slowness of light. There was nothing in the universe that moved faster . . . but, as she now saw, it was glacial compared to the speed that would be needed to keep their love alive.

Ice was precious.

call this interval "interglacial" rather than "post-glacial" because for the past million years, Earth has oscillated between glacial cold and interglacial warmth on a 100,000-year timescale dictated by metronomic variations in Earth's orbit around the sun. There is no reason to believe that our current warmth is anything other than an interglacial interval destined to give way to renewed glacial advance in the future.

ALGOR  (A'LGOR)   n.s.[Lat.] Extreme cold; chilness.Dict.

The ice was here, the ice was there,   The ice was all around: 60   It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,   Like noises in a swound!

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

But another glacial age soon set in, cooling and drying the continent dramatically. Nearly all of Africa north of the equator became a desert, making much of the continent uninhabitable. Most tribes of Homo sapiens perished, and our species neared extinction; only a cluster of humans, including a few hundred women of childbearing age, survived.

Stay icy, Tally-wa

We are ice and snow, we are that trapped state. We are water falling, itinerant and vague, ever seeking the lowest level, trying to collect and connect. We are vapor, raised against our own devices, made nebulous, blown on whatever wind arises. To start again, glacial or not.

The light-shaded Porcupine Bank can easily be seen directly west of Ireland, in exactly the same place, and roughly the same size, as the legendary Hy-Brasil on the portolan charts. The entire bank lies between 40 and 200 metres beneath the surface, and most of it (probably more than 600 square kilometres) would have been exposed at the Last Glacial Maximum, 21,000 years ago.

Cocky, fake, slimy, inelegant, ineloquent, charmless, witless, weird, sinister, glacially cold and luminescently remote, he may be the most chillingly repulsive politician of even this golden generation. If Pixar set out to create a CGI character to embody everything the public has learned to despise about its political class, they'd be thrilled to come up with this lizardy schemer {Ed Balls], who may have slipped through a tear in the fabric of space-time himself.

It's cold as balls in here!

His eyelashes were so long and thick they looked artificial. Black plastic reeds fringing two green, glacial pools.

When frozen between life and death, in the glacial in-between, what can exist of mortal feeling? Not even an echo. Only memories of ice, of ice and no more than that.

And Vishous. . . V was the worst of them. He stood by the door, staring into space. Icy before, he was glacial now, a sinkhole in the room. -Phury's thoughts

the American obsession with putting ice cubes into everything.

Old Filey lies around the Ravine, a glacial gash running down to Coble Landing. This is the fishing Filey of centuries past, with neat little terraced cottages and a cluster of attractive 18th century houses.

I felt a real kinship with Steve Bruner. He's one of those guys that is so prolific that he has a hard time keeping up with himself. I'm the opposite and move at a glacial place.

Every bit of water falling on all of France, channeled into one drainpipe—that's similar to what goes into the Columbia, or at least a shallow part of it. The river's source is a glacial drip 2,619 feet above sea level in the foothills of the Canadian Purcells; by its midway point in a high desert, the Columbia has a depth several hundred feet below the ocean plane.

There is something glacial, fishlike, and prodigiously remote about Parisians. At the sound of an approaching foreigner, their faces are as bland and expressionless as salamanders.

Tienen expresiones más glaciales; los encuentros de miradas parecen peligrosos de la forma en que pueden ser peligrosos los encuentros de miradas en el metro. Las mujeres suelen llevar atuendos que te sugieren lo que puedes ver de ellas cuando no llevan atuendos

It's really cold up here!