Drizzle Quotes

• So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

  John Green

  Rain, Unrequited Love, Thinking

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.71, Penguin

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• God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

  John Newton

  Storm, Doe, Sometimes

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• Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Rain, Love Is, Pouring

  Edwidge Danticat (2003). “Breath, Eyes, Memory”, p.48, Soho Press

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• I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

  John Green

  Love, Dream, Lying

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

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• If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

  John Green

  Rain, People, Hurricanes

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• The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.

  Susane Colasanti

  Rain, Thinking, Make You Think

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.129, Penguin

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• It's an exciting place to go, really. The rain, the drizzle, the cold, the depressing people, the smokes in the bath ... I don't know of anyone who has been to Blackpool and enjoyed it.

  Ian Hindmarsh

  Depressing, Rain, Rugby League

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• I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near

  Nikki Giovanni

  Quilts, Children, Memories

  Nikki Giovanni, “Quilts”

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• People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon and drizzle.

  Wendy Harmer

  Heart, Moon, Airports

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• There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle.

  Neil Gaiman

  Rain, Thinking, Bird

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

  Cole Porter

  Summer, Travel, Paris

  Song: I Love Paris

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• It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Rain, Two, Church

  Flannery O'Connor (2015). “Wise Blood”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain.

  George Pelecanos

  Girl, Rain, Night

  "The night gardener". Book by George Pelecanos, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2006.

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• Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

  William Styron

  Depression, Pain, Suffering

  William Clark Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Depth, Syrup, Wonderful

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's butternut squash and tahini spread recipe, plus batata harra" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Cheer, Blue, Sky

  Song: I Love Paris

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• This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Nice, Rain, Paris

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• Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their banks and Cornish fishing boats rock and spill and lose their crew in the Atlantic.

  Susan Fletcher

  Summer, Rain, Love Is

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• I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.

  Katy B

  Mom, Memories, Home

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• Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.

  O. Henry

  Fog, Nashville, Giving

  O. Henry (1992). “The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Rain, Information, Invisible

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Tears, Dying, Action

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.373, Vintage

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• Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.

  Cole Porter

  Summer, Cheer, Fall

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• One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.

  William H. Gass

  Simple, Water, Eruption

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• Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

  Dave Barry

  Nagging, Sound, States

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.97, Ballantine Books

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