The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
Winter came in days that were gray and still. They were the kind of days in which people locked in their animals and themselves and nothing seemed to stir but the smoke curling upwards from clay chimneys and an occasional red-winged blackbird which r...
The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.
I can't really change for a climate. I've got to be Theophilus London in any weather.
Better the cold blast of winter than the hot breath of a pursuing elephant.
Even over cold pudding, the coward says: "It will burn my mouth."
The taste of cold water after drinking, is a pleasure that the teetotaler will never know.
You warm up something for ten days and it goes cold in one.
Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing.
You aren't ugly, my dear. Do not listen to anyone who would say so, even yourself.
A blanket, as the epitome of warmth, could be used to stop colds. Also, sex with me might be the surest way to prevent a cold.
A blanket could be used to warn your enemy that you are coming—and that you are warm. Where’s the cold war when you need it?
A cold word from a cold man sends shivers throughout my body but my heart remains warm
The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.
I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.
i'm like a mirror if you're cool with me, i'll be cool with you. if you're cold with me, i'll be cold with you. if you're naked with me, i'll be naked with you.
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
