Louise Erdrich Quotes

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

Louise Erdrich

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• Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Sea
  • Conditions
  • Ice

• I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dance

• I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Time
  • Know
  • Ice

• Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Water
  • Influence
  • Ice

• My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Father

• I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Home

• Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Success
  • Cold
  • Lonely

• For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • School
  • High
  • Hockey

• Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Eyes
  • Learn
  • Ears

• I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Long
  • Kind

• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Ears
  • Fence

• When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Sea
  • Ice

• I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Cold
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream
  • Dessert

• When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Ice

• Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Me
  • Public
  • Give

• We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Ears

• Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg.

  

  Ice T
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Short

• His lips nuzzled her ear. “Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die,” he whispered.

  

  Teresa Medeiros
  • Dies
  • Ears
  • Lips

• Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Healthy

• Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Past
  • Poetry

• But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.

  

  E. B. White
  • Words
  • Miracle
  • Mysterious

• We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Door
  • Train

• I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Ears
  • Ice
  • Syllables