Rain Quotes - Page 10

• I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

  Lady Gaga

  Fun, Freak, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John W. Gardner

  Philosophy, Anger, Humble

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Military, Weather, Diplomats

  9 Copy quote

• A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

  Stone Gossard

  Fun, Car, Environmental

  9 Copy quote

• I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Vegetables, Wind, Gardening

  "The best things in life are..." by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Winter, Dry, West

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

  Marc Jacobs

  Thinking, Long, Snow

  6 Copy quote

• My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.

  Al Jarreau

  Eye, Blue, Sky

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Life, Passion, Men

  14 Copy quote

• I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

  Duke Kahanamoku

  Frozen, Hills

  14 Copy quote

• The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

  Greg Kinnear

  Real, Use, Irony

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Clouds, Light, Weather

  20 Copy quote

• Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Fall, States, Careless

  21 Copy quote

• The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

  James Lovelock

  Cutting, Forests, Climate

  19 Copy quote

• Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dark, People, Unhappy

  "The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

  Anna Neagle

  Country, Flower, Winter

  8 Copy quote

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

  Bill Nighy

  Beautiful, Glamorous, Journalist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.

  Susan Orlean

  Distance, Kids, Phones

  "Hello, It’s Me" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Fall, Mean, Genes

  Interview with Patti Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 05, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jean Paul

  Men, Weather, Literature

  10 Copy quote

• Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.

  Christine Pelosi

  Baseball, Team, Curves

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Sunshine, Confusing, Hot

  85 Copy quote

• 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

  Running, World, Ought

  8 Copy quote

• When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

  Paula Poundstone

  Party, Noise, Canada

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.

  Ann Romney

  Prayer, Believe, Clouds

  "Ann Romney talks about herself in Connecticut" by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. April 24, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source