Top 1200 Winter Olympics Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

Having glue stuck to your face in winter is not fun. It freezes as it hits the skin.

Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' tits on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics.

Everything in London is quite good, apart from the weather: it's cold and rainy there, and the winter is long.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.

In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

The uptake of people getting involved in cycling is partly down to the big success the team has had in the Tour de France, the Olympics and the World Championships.

It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!

I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.

Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.

If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.

We moved around every winter. I don't know. Maybe my dad was, like, on the run from the law.

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

Winter's done, and April's in the skies, Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!

Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.

At the end of the day, I'm riding a little kid's bike around a track; that's what I've done for as long as I can remember. Now it's just on a bigger stage at the Olympics.

It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular.

I'd always loved sports, and the Olympics were something I thought about often as a kid, but those dreams felt like a lifetime ago.

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

I don't think there's any less on the line in the Olympics than there is any other time.

Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment.

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.

My favorite band - and Bobby Cannavale and Terry Winter have already made fun of me for this - is Chicago.

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

Ostersund has marketed itself as a winter city. But that's changing now, with the success of the football team.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon

There ain't no time to be wasted, the world is going under... Nowadays, can't tell Fall from Spring, and Winter from Summer.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

I tried out for the London Olympics, missed it by a little bit, gave it away for a while, and wasn't sure I wanted to wait for another four years.

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

It's super cool - I have this link to Korea, and with the Olympics, I have this opportunity to represent the U.S., Korea, and my family.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrives in January.

New York, hands down. I don't want to be there in the winter, but even then it's an amazing place.

Everyone in my office wears it all winter, it's our uniform because it's the easiest thing to wear.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

I've seen the success of Mary Kom at the Olympics... We stayed in the same flat. If she can win a medal after being the mother of two, why can't I?

You don't want to do sevens just for the sake of going to the Olympics. its something you've got to want to do.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.