Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Horton

Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.

Douglas Coupland

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Duke Kahanamoku

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

David Copperfield

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

Daniel Tammet

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

David Lee Roth

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

David Levithan

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

David Letterman

I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

David Letterman

Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day.

Dodie Smith

I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

Dodie Smith

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

Dolly Parton

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Debbie Reynolds

Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

Alphonsus Liguori

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

Alfred Eisenstaedt

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

Alfred Austin

From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Annie Proulx

Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.

Amos Lee

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

Amy Carmichael

If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Anthony Doerr

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.

Anthony de Mello

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

Anne Tyler

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

Amy Grant

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

Anne Robinson

I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

Anne Sexton

Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

Anne Sexton

With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

Ambrose Bierce

The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain " that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.

Alicia Keys

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in...

Andy Grammer

Only rainbows after rain...The sun will always come again.

Andy Goldsworthy

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

Andy Goldsworthy

If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.