Glaciers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Father #Thinking #Glaciers
Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.
-- Hudson Stuck

#Fashion #Names #Glaciers
If the world was an etch-a-sketch, glaciers are the big shake.
-- Joe Rogan

#Etch A Sketch #World #Glaciers
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
-- John Clellon Holmes

#Path #Ants #Glaciers
If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.
-- John D. MacDonald

#Would Be #Glaciers #Galloping
We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.
-- John Hodgman

#Leader #Captains #Glaciers
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#War #Believe #Glaciers
When you get out onto a glacier that's the size of Northern Ireland and it's so vast, and you're standing on top of it and you can see forever, it's so pure and clear that you can see for miles and miles and miles. You really do think, "Wow, there is a god!" You feel very humbled.
-- Richard Dormer

#Thinking #Forever #Glaciers
I had an outfit that was designed for minus 30 degrees, so I had to work with costume to strap ice packs all over me because I was boiling, even out on the glacier. I was constantly trying to unzip it and take off the hat. I was just sweating. I found it very hot.
-- Richard Dormer

#Ice #Trying #Glaciers

Each situation has to be handled as a unique situation. But I think if you want your guys to stay in school and graduate and one of these opportunities comes along, you have to be willing to work with him, you have to give a little.
I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
It doesnt matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.
I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you donâ€™t.