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Quotes About Cold

I have an affection for those transitional seasons, the way they take the edge off the intense cold of winter, or heat of summer.
~ Whitney Otto
O winter! bar thine adamantine doors: the north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark deep-founded habitation.
~ William Blake
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches- They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them the cold, familiar wind- Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf One by one objects are defined- It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance-Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken
~ William Carlos Williams
Winter Trees All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.
~ William Carlos Williams
You don't want your hands froze on Christmas, do you.
~ William Faulkner
He started to speak, but his father, looking away from him toward the east, made a sound, and they were both caught, as a swimmer on the surface is caught by that cold current whose suddenness snares him in cramps and sends him in dumb surprise to the bottom.
~ William Gaddis
Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
~ William Gibson
he'd gone into a kind of terminal overdrive, hustling fresh capital with a cold intensity that had seemed to belong to someone else.
~ William Gibson
The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
~ William Goldman
He had written to her just before he sailed for America. The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)
~ William Goldman
But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable
~ William L. Shirer
Comme le ciel est beau ce soir ! On dirait une mer violette, sur une mer rouge sur une mer bleue. Et les maisons : des barques qui s'endorment au fond du port. Mais le soleil est déjà couché. Il commence à faire froid. Il faut que je rentre chez moi.
~ Chihiro Iwasaki
A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The flash is over very fast but the fire catches hold inside you and the noise never stops…I live in an inferno where you could shiver with cold Osama. This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop.
~ Chris Cleave
The Thames was cold and it was the colour of the dishwater at the end of the washing up. I remember looking up through it and seeing the light pale brown and far above and wondering if I would sink farther or float up to it. I stayed down for the longest time Osama. I wouldn't mind drowning but I did float up in the end. Somehow I always seem to.
~ Chris Cleave
Hell's a dry heat too. It still sucks. Let me know if you pull anything. I'm gonna go get a cold beer and pour it down my pants.
~ Christa Faust
Sleeping at last, the trouble and turmoil over,Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past,Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover,Sleeping at last.
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul
~ Christina Perri
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.
~ Christina Rossetti
Sataa hidasta kirkasta lunta kuin tähdet putoilisivat Odotamme pakkasen lauhtuvan ja surun johtavan jonnekin
~ Heidi Liehu
Kylmä ulottuu kaikkialle Avaruuden todellinen olemus
~ Heidi Liehu
Taivas: kylmä Maa: kylmä Minä: harhautunut niiden väliin
~ Heidi Liehu
The reason is that even in a fantasy there is nothing even remotely erotic about a toilet bowl. In fact, considered as an accoutrement to a sexual encounter, a toilet bowl is a real cold shower.
~ Helen DeWitt
Fearing cold and flu season, I fist-bump the credit card signature pad.
~ Helen Ellis