„Be able to sell ice-cubes to Eskimos – you may have to!“
— Nigel Cumberland British author and leadership coach 1967
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.65
„The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.“
Man: His first Million Years, (1957); this quote begins the penultimate chapter of Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
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„He lives.
I breathe.
I want. Him. Always.
Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.
-Mac“
— Karen Marie Moning author 1964
Source: Shadowfever
„Eternity is a glorious word but eternity is ice.“
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
“Eternity and Eternity,” p. 32
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
„You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.“
— Zhuangzi classic Chinese philosopher -369 - -286 BC
Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
„Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.“
— Dan Savage, book Skipping Towards Gomorrah
Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2002), p. 165
„Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!“
— Brandon Sanderson American fantasy writer 1975
Source: The Rithmatist
„Luna! Artemis! lovers' spats are icing on the cake! Your just showing off to us single people! -Minako“
— Naoko Takeuchi Japanese manga artist 1967
Source: Sailor Moon, #11
„All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas. How sad that people ignore the near and search the truth afar: like someone in the midst of watercrying out in thirst: like a child of a wealthy home wandering among the poor.“
— Hakuin Ekaku Japanese Zen Buddhist master 1686 - 1769
As quoted in Teachings of the Buddha p. 207
„And yet I strove — and I was fire
And ice — and fire and ice were one
In one vast hunger of desire.“
— Stephen Vincent Benét poet, short story writer, novelist 1898 - 1943
Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage
Context: p>The iron ice stung like a goad,
Slashing the torn shoes from my feet,
And all the air was bitter sleet. And all the land was cramped with snow,
Steel-strong and fierce and glimmering wan,
Like pale plains of obsidian.
— And yet I strove — and I was fire
And ice — and fire and ice were one
In one vast hunger of desire.</p
„There's something moving
Under, under the ice,
Moving under ice,
Through water,
Trying to get out of the cold water.
"It's me."“
— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958
Something, someone — help them.
"It's me."
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
„Bring ice, thanks, Agnes“
— Agnes Martin American artist 1912 - 2004
as quoted by Olivia Laing, in 'Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert' https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/22/agnes-martin-the-artist-mystic-who-disappeared-into-the-desert, The Guardian, 22 May 2015
In June 1974, she appeared out of the blue at Pace gallery [in New York] and asked if they'd like to show her new work. She invited Glimcher to come to Mexico and view it, posting him a hand-drawn map, at the bottom of which she had scrawled 'bring ice thanks Agnes'. When he arrived she showed him five new paintings, made of either horizontal or vertical stripes in ice blue and red so watered it was barely pink. At 62, Martin had found a new visual language
1970's
„Ice and iron cannot be welded.“
— Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850 - 1894
Weir of Hermiston http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/weirh10.txt (1896).
„Life cracked like ice!“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
„ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.“
— Haruki Murakami, book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
„All this ice got me feelin like a polar bear.“
— Lil Wayne American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman 1982
Kush
Official Mix tapes, The Leak (2007)
„… knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.“
— Brandon Sanderson American fantasy writer 1975
Source: The Rithmatist
„It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants.“
— Arsène Wenger French footballer and manager 1949
Crystal Palace 1-1 Arsenal (6 November 2004) http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2004/nov/08/match.sport10?INTCMP=SRCH
Interviews
Context: It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.
„Jackson has broken the ice for us.“
— Willem de Kooning Dutch painter 1904 - 1997
Quote from Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 130.
De Kooning's comment on Pollock's drip paintings, first shown at Betty Parsons gallery, 1948
1940's