Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Eugenides

All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.

Jeffrey Eugenides

During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.

Jim Gaffigan

Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line?

Jean Ingelow

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.

Jacques Roumain

Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

George Harrison

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not.

Gary Snyder

Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?

Jerzy Kosinski

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

Jerry Lawler

If charisma were rain, Blackman would be a desert.

Jennifer Granholm

We cannot wait for the storm to blow over; we must learn to work in the rain.

George S. Patton

Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

Jean Paul

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Jean Paul

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

Jerry Spinelli

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

Eminem

The devil's spirit's trapped inside me. My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man. So I keep conjuring (demons), sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn (Satan) from. I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the monster that's under my bed. Get along with the voices inside of my head.

Eminem

My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.

Jason Mraz

I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what- nots. But the windows are always open and you can hear the crickets, birds, chickens, and even the sound of rain hitting the studio. The farm is a great place to hang out in, learn from and create music.

Herbert Simon

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

Ernest Hemingway

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

Ernest Hemingway

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

Eva Green

For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

Jhumpa Lahiri

Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time.

Graham Greene

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.

Giulio Andreotti

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

Haley Barbour

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

Halle Berry

I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

Gregory David Roberts

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business