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Quotes About Cold

Goodbye, goodbye, may Bog forgive you for a ruined life. Then I got on to the sill, the music blasting away to my left, and I shut my glazzies and felt the cold wind on my listo, then I jumped.
~ Anthony Burgess
A flip dark chill winter bastard though dry
~ Anthony Burgess
Gathered round the bucket of coke that burned in front of the shelter, several figures were swinging arms against bodies and rubbing hands together with large, pantomimic gestures: like comedians giving formal expression to the concept of extreme cold.
~ Anthony Powell
They thought that they loved each other: — each thought so; but there was no love, no sympathy, no warmth. The very atmosphere was cold, — so cold that no fire could remove the chill.
~ Anthony Trollope
The door was opened for him by an old servant in black, who proposed at once to show him to his room. He looked round the vast hall, which, when he had before known it, was ever filled with signs of life, and felt at once that it was empty and deserted. It struck him as intolerably cold, and he saw that the huge fireplace was without a spark of fire.
~ Anthony Trollope
That winter, however, was especially severe, and the cold of the last ten days of December was more felt, I think, in Paris than in any part of England. It may, indeed, be doubted whether there is any town in any country in which thoroughly bad weather is more afflicting than in the French capital. Snow and hail seem to be colder there, and fires certainly are less warm, than in London.
~ Anthony Trollope
A clear cold Christmas,' Patton wrote in his diary that day, 'lovely weather for killing Germans, which seems a bit queer, seeing Whose birthday it is.' Patton
~ Antony Beevor
Shepherds say too that it makes a difference to the production of females and the production of males not only if mating occurs during north winds or south winds, but |767a10| also if while copulating the animals look south or north. So small a thing, they say, will sometimes shift the balance, becoming a cause of cold or heat, and these a cause in generation.
~ Aristotle
You really an automaton – a calculating machine. There is something positively inhuman in you at times.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I must really apologize, Hopkins," said Sherlock Holmes. "I fear that the scrambled eggs are cold. However, you will enjoy the rest of your breakfast all the better, will you not, for the thought that you have brought your case to a triumphant conclusion.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The third-class funeral is a shabby one and costs only a hundred dollars. The weather is cold and foggy. The coffin has no catafalque. There are two horses and two reverends. Not a carriage in sight.
~ Sholem Aleichem
The Atlantic is the classic ocean of our imaginings, an industrial ocean of cold and iron and salt, a purposeful ocean of sea-lanes and docksides and fisheries, an ocean alive with squadrons of steadily moving ships above, with unimaginable volumes of mysterious marine abundance below.
~ Simon Winchester
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Lewis was an extremely cold, stern, and business-minded man.
~ Sinclair Lewis
A cold dismay creeps over me. Oh okay, maybe I did once kind of pretend I had a stalker. Which I shouldn't have done. But I mean, just because you invent one tiny stalker - that doesn't make you a complete nut case, does it?
~ Sophie Kinsella
It hasn't snowed like this for years. Real, proper snow. Dickensian snow
~ Sophie Kinsella
And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.
~ Sophocles
Warm für die Kalten leidet deine Seele. (warm for the cold does your soul burn) - Ismene to Antigone
~ Sophocles
Warm für die Kalten leidet deine Seele.
~ Sophocles
I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just... all the time!
~ Grimes
The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
These guys put the 'bone' in Zamboni
~ John Rosengren
You say marriage," she muttered. "I say prison sentence." He pursed his lips. "So, instead of the fairy-tale existence every woman dreams of as a child, you're forced to live in a physically cold relationship with an abusive philanderer for at least another year?" "Way to sum it up." Maritza sent out a caustic laugh. "Do me a favor. Kill me now." The
~ John Tucker