The Icedrop Quotes & Sayings

And let me not leave out the moon - for surely there must be a moon, the full, incredibly clear disc that goes so well with Russian lusty frosts. So there it comes, steering out of a flock of small dappled clouds, which it tinges with a vague iridescence; and, as it sails higher, it glazes the runner tracks left on the road, where every sparkling lump of snow is emphasized by a swollen shadow. — Vladimir Nabokov

I believe in lust at first sight.And attraction.But not love. — Simone Elkeles

To the matter at hand: though English has traditionally been a largish department, you will find there are very few viable candidates capable of assuming the mantle of DGS. In fact, if I were a betting man, I'd wager that only 10 percent of the English instruction list will answer your call for nominations. Why? First, because more than a third of our faculty now consists of temporary (adjunct) instructors who creep into the building under cover of darkness to teach their graveyard shifts of freshman comp; they are not eligible to vote or to serve. Second, because the remaining two-thirds of the faculty, bearing the scars of disenfranchisement and long-term abuse, are busy tending to personal grudges like scraps of carrion on which they gnaw in the gloom of their offices. Long story short: your options aren't pretty. — Julie Schumacher

In order to succeed, it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to be is one day ahead of them. — Leo Szilard

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all. — Nigel Dennis

You see, Adrian, we do many things. We assign meaning to some, and think of others as lacking it. But who's to tell when we're right - and when we're wrong? — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future. — Max Lucado

What we call results are beginnings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed. — Annette Bening

Change is uncomfortable. And heading out into unfamiliar terrain is risky. Far too many crave comfort and security. And so they lead a limited existence within the safe confines of their velvety prisons. — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Not for the first time in his life he felt himself fall into the gap between felings and their articulation in language. — Neel Mukherjee

Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop — Thomas Pynchon

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone. — Carol Vorderman

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Realize the joy there is in trying to accomplish the impossible. — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams. — Neil Gaiman

Everyone has a purpose in life - even if yours is to go through it believing you don't have one! — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Sometimes, to have fun, you've got to be willing to take a chance - and even be frightened! — Mani S. Sivasubramanian