Winter Quotes

"My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream"

"Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow"

Roy Bean, Judge

"My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party"

William Henry Ashley, Businessman

"The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have"

Tom Allen, Politician

"I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter"

Bob Seger, Musician

"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow"

Agnetha Faltskog, Musician

"We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity"

Tom Allen, Politician

"The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs"

Kyle MacLachlan, Actor

"Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up"

George Catlin, Artist

"Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action"

Damon Hill, Athlete

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

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire"

Steven Tyler, Musician

"Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any"

Otis Williams, Musician

"I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it"

Laurie Lee, Poet

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

Jonathan Frid, Actor

"But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season"

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

"But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery"

David Rittenhouse, Scientist

"Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them"

Anthea Turner, Entertainer

"That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?"

Richie Sambora, Musician

"We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive"

Toni Collette, Actress

"I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week"

Gene Kelly, Actor

"There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball"

Bill Veeck, Businessman

"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place"

Christopher Gist, Explorer

"My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring"

Rogers Hornsby, Athlete

"In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback"

Mike Oldfield, Musician

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