Piercingly Cold Quotes & Sayings

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there. — Carol Burnett

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment — Audrey Hepburn

The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth. — Robert Wilson Lynd

Everything was going according to plan. What caught me off guard, however, was the fact that this eagerly awaited phase brought a sense of loss to me that triggered a whole new wave of soul searching I had not anticipated. — Carolyn Custis James

Come, we burn daylight, ho! — William Shakespeare

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well. — Fergus Henderson

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north. — Ellsworth Huntington

When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep going
for no other reason than to continue. Because that's all there is to do. — Robert Redford

The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I made it," you said, gruffly, "for you."
You shoved it onto my finger. It was roughly carved, shaped from a lump of something colourful and cold ... a ring made entirely from a gemstone. It was beautiful. It glinted emerald greens and blood reds over my skin, and had tiny flecks of gold catching the light. I couldn't stop staring at it.
"Why?" I asked.
You didn't answer that. Instead you touched the ring gently and looked piercingly at me, unsaid questions in your eyes. — Lucy Christopher

[ ... ]no one can do an injury to you without doing an injury to themselves. — David Adams Richards

Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it.
Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it. — Redman