Ice Quotes
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Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking.
P. K. Subban
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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
Robin Williams
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Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.
A. S. Byatt
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I always want to execute and maximize off of potential, and this is a natural progression. Coming up as a youngster, I always wanted to be a rapper, but I knew that if I did everything right as a rapper, I'd end up as an actor, following the models of Ice Cube, Tupac [Shakur] and Will Smith.
T.I.
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Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.
John Barrymore
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On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.
Apolo Ohno
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Love is like ice in the hands of children.
Sophocles
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Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!
J. Christopher Stevens
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I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.
Louise Erdrich
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We thus find ourselves in the situation that the entire theory of man-made global warming-with its repercussions in science, and its important consequences for politics and the global economy-is based on ice core studies that provided a false picture of the atmospheric CO2 levels.
Zbigniew Jaworowski
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You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice. In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better.
Apolo Ohno
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Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.
Scott Wolf
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Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.
Ian Caldwell
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Yielding, like ice about to melt.
Lao Tzu
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I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades."
Henry Louis Gates
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
Robert Frost
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I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.
William Lloyd Garrison
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I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
Martin Mull
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His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them
J. D. Salinger
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Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.
Sarah Hughes
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My girlfriend has been the ice.
Apolo Ohno
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One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
Alec Wilkinson
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Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.
P. K. Subban