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Quotes About Freeze

Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
~ Karl Rove
But I had with me the greatest conversation-stopper ever made: a pump-action shotgun. At the cost of one unfired shell, I could make the kind of sound that would freeze any three men to any three spots in the world. The most intimidating noise ever heard. Crunch crunch. My ejected shell hit the leaves at my feet and the three guys froze solid.
~ Lee Child
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
~ Dr. Seuss
The tail is the time period from "code slush" (true code freezes are rare) or "feature freeze" to actual deployment. This is the time period when companies do some or all of the following: beta testing, regression testing, product integration, integration testing, documentation, defect fixing. The worst "tail" I've encountered was 18 months—18 months from feature freeze to product release, and most of that time was spent in QA. I've
~ Jim Highsmith
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
~ June Jordan
Is kidnapping kidnappers still kidnapping? Miles mused. Yes, said Roic, unhelpfully. Not that NewEgypt is likely to bring charges. Naw, they'd do something else. I am reminded. I could have Suze freeze and store them for us, I suppose. Technically. Roic gave him the Look. If push came to shove. As a Kibou-daini problem-solving technique, there seems to be precedent. Roic said nothing, firmly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex you if you did her wrong, and from her aunts, who might boil up garden toads and slip them into your stew, and from her mother, who was so angry and protective she might just freeze you in time, ensuring that you were forever trapped on the green grass at the age of ten or eleven.
~ Alice Hoffman
The cold wind made it difficult to breathe, as if it could snatch your next breath before you had time to swallow it, and
~ Alice McDermott
At that moment, the images in the giant sphere seemed to freeze in place as all motion suddenly ceased. The charging dragon stood transfixed with a plume of flame suspended in front of his nostrils. The knight hung motionless in mid-stride, both feet off the ground, sword raised but unmoving. Time stood still. The crowd waited in breathless anticipation.
~ Ed Dunlop
Still must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak and cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as flowers and song and you; Still as of old his being give In Beauty's name, while she may live, Beauty that may not die as long As there are flowers and you and song.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
It is said that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
~ Anonymous
It was love. He excavated a boot print she'd left on the snowy step outside his apartment and preserved it in his freezer.
~ Anthony Doerr
What is time? he wrote in his pad. Must time occur in sequence—beginning to middle to end—or is this only one way to perceive it? Maybe time can spill and freeze and retreat; maybe time is like water, endlessly cycling through its states.
~ Anthony Doerr
I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.
~ Donny Osmond
Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film camera, I feel different.
~ Barry Keoghan
I've only seen one snake out in the wilderness, not behind glass, and I froze. I literally couldn't move. So to say I have a fear of snakes would be true.
~ Jeff Nichols
Third, and probably most importantly, anxiety affects children's behavior. When children are anxious, they may freeze, fidget, pace, cry, cling, and shake. In addition, anxiety usually involves some type of avoidance.
~ Ronald M. Rapee
Snow does not freeze the hands, but like ether distends the lungs until they burst. All the ships are sinking with fire in their bowels, and there are fires hissing in the cellars of every house.
~ Anais Nin
Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.
~ Sarah Vowell
You know,I think I'd rather freeze than continue this conversation. You've been warned.Proceed at your own risk." He smiled. "I always do,darlin'.
~ Johanna Lindsey
You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I'm not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I'm not going to do it.
~ Dolph Lundgren
Overaroused HSPs tend to substitute "freeze" for the "fight or flight" response.
~ Elaine N. Aron
when the Earth got cold, all the water in the air froze first and made a blanket ten feet thick or so everywhere, and then down on top of that dropped the crystals of frozen air, making another white blanket sixty or seventy feet thick maybe.
~ Fritz Leiber