“The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.” MenYearsRunningChurchSawsHe ManRevolutionLateChaosIceCatholicismModestFrozenCouncilFrench Revolution Author:Andrew Greeley
“I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."” MenTryingYearsSaidAgeGirlFoundHouseNamesGivenWorryHe ManBrotherCallingJokesStartingIceMy BrotherTwelveElevenHoodCubesNot WorryingToo Cool Author:Ice Cube
“It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.” MenFirstsLastsHumanitySilenceGonePathCuttingHe ManBrokenSolitudeIceStreamsLeapSilence IsFrozenSocial ChangePioneersSwimmer Book:Woman and Labor Source: Woman and Labor
“The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.” MenFirstsPersonsLastsMotherNamesHe ManIceManagersShopsBossCreamIce CreamFirst Person Author:Mona Simpson
“The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice.” MenMindHe ManRoseWinterIceTenements Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.” MenShouldYearsMindHas BeensMadePoetryThreeMillionsHe ManPoetLoversDollarsExperimentsIceChocolateThree YearsLayersVersesCreamPieFountainIce CreamMillion DollarsLove PoetryAppearingExperimentationSoda Author:John Dos Passos
“The way I see it, the men that I'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.” IfsKnowsMenWayLooksFactsShowsAcceptingHe ManIceHipsGoing AwayCreamIce Cream Author:Tori Amos
“Hey! D'you guys hear Dr. Atkins died? Slipped on some ice, hit his head, died on life support. The man who invented the all-meat diet... died a vegetable. That's a damn good joke. But that joke's like a Toyota Camry - reliable, not inspiring.” MenGuySupportHe ManJokesDiedIceHeyDamnMeatDietsVegetablesDrsDamn GoodToyota Author:Christopher Titus