Quotes About Cold

she said, exhaling a cloud of smoke into the cold night air. "You'll

As in the cold season their wings bear the starlings along in a broad, dense flock, so does that blast the wicked spirits. Hither, thither, downward, upward, it drives them.

The cold numbs before it kills.

blue and cold as winter stones

proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.

As Henry G. Felsen, a humorist and no medical authority, pointed out quite a while ago, proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.

The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.

She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. Her mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss.

Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.

He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.

parecía un frío talismán que no sólo le decía que aquel futuro optimista nunca iba a suceder, sino que la vida nunca había sido de aquel modo.

Camels, unlike most animals, regulate their body temperatures at two different but stable states. During daytime in the desert, when it is unbearably hot, camels regulate close to 40°C, a close enough match to the air temperature to avoid having to cool by sweating precious water. At night the desert is cold, and even cold enough for frost; the camel would seriously lose heat if it tried to stay at 40°C, so it moves its regulation to a more suitable 34°C, which is warm

Some people didn't like the novel, it is in some ways extremely bleak. But if you are dealing with the kind of subjects I am trying to demystify the delusions we have about ourselves, to get a more accurate fix on human nature then people are unsettled. And the easiest way to deal with that is to say it's weird or it's cold.

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

The intellectual normally values reason above all, Dover demonstrates that reason divorced from emotion becomes cold, clinical and ahuman.

You've got haired," he said. "Must be that cold Scottish weather.

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,Sullen and sad.

Everything was raw and painful and confusing and wrong and yet it was as if I'd been dragged from freezing water through a break in the ice, into sun and blazing cold.

I think he felt the need to make a noble gesture, something to prove to us and to himself that it was in fact possible to put those high cold principles which Julian had taught us to use. Duty, piety, loyalty, sacrifice.

Fabelhaft. Having the best fun ever. One thing at a time. Aspirins. Cold water from the minibar.

winter grayness weighing like stone.

It was dark, even at noon, with the snow stretching white and stark to the violet slate of the sky. The frost, grown stronger and stronger, was an antagonist to be studied and countered, like a runagate thief with a knife.

They flew, hissing, through the surgical cold of the air, the scythed snow spinning like glass from the runners.

And it is signed simply 'M.' A very cold letter, you may think—almost hostile in tone. And yet the appointment is made for 9:30.