"The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have."
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"I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice."
"Ice and iron cannot be welded."
"Harder is Better! Post work out! Foot in the Ice Bath. A girl has to make a living! #hardcandytoronto. #addictedtosweat"
"Never question the size of Ice Cube's balls!"
"My wife keeps me sharp. You know, she ain't going to let me get comfortable with this "Ice Cube" stuff."
"Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?' They surround me and make a big fuss"
"And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns."
"I asked Joe Weixlmann why he would print a death threat like that in light of the fact that there are all of these armed ideological nuts wandering around loose. He said that for him, to "ice" someone means to reprimand them."
"Puck in the centre of your chest, always have motion in your skating when the rush is coming at you, being square to the puck, understanding who's on the ice and where they are on the ice at all times, competing and having fun."
"According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979."
"Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit."
"We're so used to it that we don't think twice about it. For somebody who's starting out in ice hockey it would be heavy, but it's protection. It's everything you need so you do have to get used to it."
"The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting."
"We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess."
"Memories of ice and Trent surfaced, and I wrapped my arms around my middle. I had saved him, and he had saved me. What was wrong with us?"
"Where did he go!” he bellowed, gloved hands clenching. “I had him in a snare that would take Alexander the Great a lifetime to untwist, and he did it in a week!” Al took a step, pinwheeling as his booted heel found an ice cube."
"I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!"
"I went to acting school with Mario Van Peebles. For a little while, he was at the same school. So he asked me if I wanted to do [ New Jack City]. He said, "There's not really a role. We'll figure something out. But would you like to?" And I was like, "Sure." 'Cause he said it was Chris Rock and Ice T's first movie."
"Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite."