Rain Quotes - Page 40

• I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.

  Joe Strummer

  Song, Growing Up, People

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• The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Reading, Water

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• Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

  Steven Pressfield

  Attitude, Dark, Night

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• Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

  James Taylor

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• ['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.

  James Taylor

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

  Joe Strummer

  Music, Income, Strange

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• When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.

  Tom Waits

  Dresses, Hats, Enough

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• I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

  George Saunders

  Birthday, Drama, Character

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Kids, Forests, Destroyed

  "25 Hottest Stars Under 25", Teen People Magazine, 2002.

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• Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage.

  Stephen Fry

  Doe, Hey, May

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• No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Real, Mean, Cat

  "Fictional character: Holly Golightly". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", www.imdb.com. 1961.

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• I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Running, Eight, Discipline

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

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• Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

  Matt Damon

  Soccer, Fire, Endurance

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• When you don't have love, it's like there's a party going on, and everybody was invited, except for you. And you just happened to be walking by that house in the rain...

  Dane Cook

  Party, House, Walks

  "Tourgasm", 2006.

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• I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.

  Vivien Leigh

  Country, Memories, Drinking

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• They had so much rain in New York that a lot of the cabbies had their first shower in years.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Years, Firsts

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• There are holes in the sky
  Where the rain gets in,
  But they're ever so small
  That's why rain is thin.

  Spike Milligan

  Sky, Holes

  Spike Milligan (2004). “The compulsive Spike Milligan”

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• Could be worse... Could be raining

  Marty Feldman

  "Fictional character: Igor". "Young Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• I’m the only fire that can live in the rain

  Lil Wayne

  Fire

  Song: Seat Down Low

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• In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.

  Amy Poehler

  Hurt, People, Abuse

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• Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

  Thomas Gibson

  Cities, House, Shining

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

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• I’m not offended by homosexuality. In the 60s I made love to many, many women – often outdoors in the mud and the rain – and it’s possible that a man slipped in. There’d be no way of knowing.

  Creed Bratton

  Men, Knowing, Way

  "The Office: Gay Witch Hunt". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

  Morris Chestnut

  Machines, Dry, Scene

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Jobs, Technology, Ozone

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...

  Paul McCartney

  Inspirational, May, Sun

  "Song: I'll Follow The Sun (Beatles for Sale)". December 4, 1964.

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