Icicle Works Closed

Famous quotes containing the words icicle, works and/or closed:

“As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering his fellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

“It’s an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)

“We are closed in, and the key is turned
On our uncertainty;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)