Quotes About Winter

Wanhoop kost tijd en als hij iets niet heeft dan is het dat: tijd. Hij zou er ruimte voor moeten maken in zijn agenda. Misschien kan hij van de winter een weekend inruimen voor wanhoop.

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.

In winter when the snow and ice were fierce, we shook beneath our different roofs alone, and that's what Hell is like, I think. It's cold and shame and shaking. And worst of all, it's loneliness.

I'm building a grave for my heart, that it may rest; I spin a cocoon around myself, because everywhere it's winter, in blissfull memories I wrap myself against the storm.

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

How COULD they endure my happiness, if I did not put around it accidents, and winter-privations, and bear-skin caps, and enmantling snowflakes!

These smoky, room-temperature, used-up, wilted, fretful souls —how could their grudge endure my happiness? Hence I show them only the ice and the winter of my peaks—and not that my mountain still winds all the belts of the sun round itself. They hear only my winter winds whistling—and not that I also cross warm seas, like longing, heavy, hot south winds. They still have pity on my accidents; but my word says, Let accidents come to me, they are innocent as little children.

thick, red-and-white-striped scarf wound around his neck like a Seussian python.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

I want to age the way that life makes you age, because there's beauty in autumn and winter and I think people forget that.

My hometown, first and foremost, it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. A beautiful lake town. It's one of those communities where, winter rolls around, it's exactly the same as any other small town in America. Sort of a lower socio-economic area. There isn't anything high-end necessarily anywhere around there.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms, goes away, and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it's still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted.

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.'

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.