Saturday 30 June 2012

Attractive Flowers

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
-Max Muller



“What a lovely thing a rose is!"

He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle



















Flower Quotes:-
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
--Dogen

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

--Gilbert K. Chesterton


A weed is but an unloved flower.

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox


A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

--James Russell Lowell


A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

--Anna Held


A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

--Honore de Balzac

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
--Max Muller

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

--Dogen


A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

--Gilbert K. Chesterton 

 

A weed is but an unloved flower.

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox


A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

--James Russell Lowell


A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

--Anna Held


A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

--Honore de Balzac


All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
--Abraham Lincoln

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

--John Mortimer


All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

--Charles A. Beard


All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

--Francis Thompson


And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

--Alice Walker 

 

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

--Albert Camus


Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

--Thomas Nash

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
--James Montgomery

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

--Yukio Mishima


By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

--Rabindranath Tagore

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
--Joseph Conrad


Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

--Neil Young


Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

--Gerard De Nerval
 

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.
--Ravi Shankar

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

--Sharon Tate


Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

--Jody Watley


For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

--Thomas Malory 

 

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

--Anne Morrow Lindbergh


For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

--David Herbert Lawrence


From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

--Jesse Jackson




Sea Waves

“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind”
-Longfellow

 















Sea Quotes:-
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
-William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
-William Shakespeare 

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

-Thomas jefferson

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

-Thomas jefferson


We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

-John F. Kennedy


Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
-Khalil Gibran 

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

-Khalil Gibran 
 
   















The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
-Vincent Van Gogh

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

-Rabindranath Tagore


The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

-Rabindranath Tagore


Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

-Samuel Beckett


There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

-Alfred Hitchcock


There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

-Victor Hugo


The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

-Victor Hugo

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-Francis Bacon

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

-George Burns


Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

-John Keats


Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero


One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

-Eric Alterman


Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

-Lucretius
 
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

-Vincent Van Gogh

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

-Rabindranath Tagore


The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

-Rabindranath Tagore


Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

-Samuel Beckett


There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

-Alfred Hitchcock


There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

-Victor Hugo


The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

-Victor Hugo
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-Francis Bacon


When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

-George Burns


Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

-John Keats


Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero


One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

-Eric Alterman


Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

-Lucretius
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
-Woodrow Wilson

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

-Golda Meir


The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

-Jacques Yves Cousteau


A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

-Jacques Yves Cousteau


No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

-Jacques Yves Cousteau


The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

-Jacques Yves Cousteau
 

It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.
-Sarah Chalke


I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

-Robert Fitzgerald


On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.

-Joshua Slocum


Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

-Dana Rohrabacher


If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

-Joshua Slocum


At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

-John T. Flynn
 
I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.
-Connie Nielsen


I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

-Ralph Steadman


But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

-Robert McChesney


It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

-John Millington Synge

Friday 29 June 2012

Lightning

"The reason Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time"...lol


It's like catching lightning, the chances of finding someone like you

 














Lightning strikes the Stature of Liberty 
















Lightning Quotes:-
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
-Randall Jarrell


A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

-James Dickey


And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

-Story Musgrave


And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

-Black Elk


Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

-John Turner


Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

-Charles Dickens


Electricity is really just organized lightning.

-George Carlin

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
-Sergei Eisenstein


Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

-Franz Grillparzer


He must be lightning slow.

-Ron Atkinson


How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

-Lee Trevino


Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

-Samuel Butler


I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

-Eden Ahbez


I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.

-Kristen Bell


I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
-Oliver Stone

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

-Loretta Lynn


I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

-Howard Stern


I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

-Ken Kesey


I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

-Lee Trevino


If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

-Lee Trevino
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
-Woodrow Wilson


Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

-Richard Branson


Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

-Richard Neal


Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

-Joseph Addison


My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

-James Otis


Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

-Augustus Hare


Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

-Buffalo Bill


Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

-Hodding Carter


The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

-Lee Iacocca


The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson


The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

-Mark Twain


The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

-Charles Eastman
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
-Horace


The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

-Mary Stewart


The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

-Rick Pitino


The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

-Willie Tyler


The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

-Annette Bening


The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

-Mark Twain
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
-Bill Bryson


They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

-Clint Eastwood


Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sure.

-John Bauer


Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

-Mark Twain


We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

-Julian Assange


You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

-John Ruskin
 
 


For Rain lovers

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down........

 






             




Love The Rain

People ask me...

Why do you love the rain?
Why is it so special to you?
But the answer is not easily explained...
When the rain comes down gently,
it soothes me...
And when it comes down hard,
it refreshes my soul...
Rain plays songs on my rooftop,
singing me to sleep...
It can't hurt me,
no matter how hard it tries...
No one is out when it rains,
so I can have some peace...
Rain let's me be me,
and can't change me...
That's why I love the rain...
But the best reason why I love the rain,
is that when I walk in it
no one can tell that I'm crying...













 






Rain Quotes:-
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. 
-Don Delillo

Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
-Dame Edith Sitwell

April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
-T S Eliot

The four rural counties in the district also received wind and rain damage and experienced power outages affecting thousands of families.
-Jo Bonner

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
-Dolly Parton
Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
-Fran Lebowitz

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. 
-Hosea Ballou

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
-John

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
-Colin Wilson
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. 
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain...
-Karen Blixen
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. 
-Jerry Chin
Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; . -Charles Dickens

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
-D H Lawrence

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-Robert Frost

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

-Frederick The Great

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

-James Dickey

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.

-Ray Evans

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

-e. e. cummings

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

-Ferdowsi

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

-Gilbert K. Chesterton

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
-Dwight Morrow

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

-Jesus Christ

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

-Joshua Slocum

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

-Rabindranath Tagore

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

-Frank Howard Clark

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

-Billie Holiday

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

-John McGahern

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
John Cheever

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

-Thomas More

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

-Douglas William Jerrold

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

-Michael W. Smith

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.

-Herbert Simon

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

-Eden Ahbez

I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.
-Glenn Beck

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.

-John Cleveland

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

-Billy Bob Thornton

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.

-Johnny Nash

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

-William Dampier

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

-Clint Eastwood

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

-Leonard Cohen

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.
-Piper Perabo

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.

-Jon Hamm

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

-Pablo Neruda

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch "Singin' in the Rain" and "White Christmas" - those kind of movies.

-Lucas Grabeel

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

-Duke Kahanamoku

I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.

-Michelle Wie

I like rain, actually.

-Bill Rodgers

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.
-Thomas Haden Church

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

-Katherine Mansfield

I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

-Daniela Hantuchova

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

-Anthony Doerr

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.

-Bill Rodgers

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

-Douglas Adams
 
I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
-Robin Day

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

-Bill Nighy

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.'

-Julia Stiles

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

-Chris Burke

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.

-Halle Berry

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

-Fuzzy Zoeller

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

-David Copperfield

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.
-Arthur Freed

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

-John Elway

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

-William Lyon Phelps

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

-Peter Benchley

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

-Tom Barrett

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

-Stephanie Tubbs Jones

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

-Clint Eastwood

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.
-Jerzy Kosinski

In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.

-Mike Oldfield

Into each life some rain must fall.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

-Dave Barry

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

-Francis Maude

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

-Linda Fiorentino