“How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
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Emily Brontë151
English novelist and poet 1818–1848Related quotes
“Snow is water, and ice is water, and water is water; these three are one.”
Joseph Dare (reverend) (1831–1880) Australian clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 285.
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book XII, p. 465
“Nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Commonly quoted on the internet, this quote is actually from Karl Grossman, via his 1980 book Cover Up: What You are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power (p. 155; freely available online via its publisher http://www.thepermanentpress.com/p-354-cover-up.aspx; see PDF page 187). <br class="br">Misattributed
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Something, someone — help them.
"It's me."
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
Paul Glover (1947) Community organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American politician
http://www.paulglover.org/8812.html (“Ithaca Power”) comprehensive energy survey, received grant from Fund for Investigative Journalism, December 1988 <br class="br">Context: “While dissecting the universe scientists discovered that uranium, a metal invisibly boiling, can boil water to spark electricity. They believed the 'peaceful atom' would give cheap clean power. Recent years cause many to doubt this.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
Georgina and Richard
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: On Mystic Lake
“Veins full of disappearing inkVomitting in the kitchen sink.<BR”
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) American singer-songwriter
Fond Farewell.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)