quotes about Glaciers
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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 -
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 StuckSource : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.
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If the world was an etch-a-sketch, glaciers are the big shake.
-- Joe Rogan -
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
-- John Clellon HolmesSource : John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.247, Open Road Media
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 DormerSource : Source: collider.com
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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 DormerSource : Source: collider.com
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“I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.”
Source : Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.
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“It doesnt matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.”
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Source : "James Salter: The Greatest Writer You've Never Read" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2015.