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• I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Ideas, Unexpected

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• Imagine you are walking down a leafy path...The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon. Then suddenly, you feel a large drop on your right arm. Is it raining? You look up. The sky is still deceptively sunny...seconds later another drop. Then, with the sun still perched in the sky, you are drenched in a shower of rain. This is how memories invade me, abruptly and unexpectedly.

  Azar Nafisi

  Memories, Rain, Light

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.59, Random House

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• We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Blessing, Rivers, Knowing

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• The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a woman's primary love needs is through communication. By learning to listen to a woman's feelings, a man can effectively shower a woman with caring, understanding, respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance.

  John Gray

  Communication, Love You, Caring

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of their grace and make it flourish more; this may fill their hearts with joy till they run over.

  Thomas Watson

  Running, Religious, Hurt

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28”, p.6, Gideon House Books

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• Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Encouragement, Appreciation

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.55

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• I think some of this just feels right. You're in the shower and you come up with a sentence and it's beautiful. You don't know how it's going to fit in the film, but you put it in because it feels right. This is a very long way of saying, so much of it is me feeling like I'm catching ideas rather than coming up with ideas. It's very fluid like that.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Beautiful, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dad, Lying, Heart

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• Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Christian, Pain, Grief

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• It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Rain, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

  Andrew Jackson

  Rain, 4th Of July, Blessing

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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• I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know.

  Zachary Levi

  Growing Up, Car, Musical

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• I could also distinguish the glint of a special puddle (the one Krug had somehow perceived through the layer of his own life), an oblong puddle invariably acquiring the same form after every shower because of the constant spatulate shape of a depression in the ground. Possibly something of the kind may be said to occur in regard to the imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space. Twang. A good night for nothing.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Depression, Good Night, Space

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Bend Sinister”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.

  Randy Jackson

  Moving, Everyday, Teeth

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• Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

  John Gay

  Winter, Support, Maids

  John Gay (1826). “Gay's Fables and Other Poems: Cotton's Visions in Verse ; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex ; with Sketches of the Authors' Lives”, p.197

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• Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Kindness, Creativity, Blessing

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.189, Sophia Institute Press

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• It's a horrible economy but I'm trying to do my part. I just bought a new shower curtain it has all the presidents on it. Do you know how hard it is to masturbate with all the presidents staring at you? And when the water hits them it looks like they're crying.

  Dave Attell

  Water, Trying, President

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• I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is.

  Doris Lessing

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  "Doris Lessing, The Art of Fiction No. 102". Interview with Thomas Frick, The Paris Review, Issue 106, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1988.

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• When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.

  Jeff Bezos

  Morning, Thinking, Competitors

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

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rain, Storm, Different

  "Andy Goldsworthy goes into the wild". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Sunshine, Woods

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.22, tredition

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• I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"

  Oleta Adams

  Voice, March, Never Forget

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• I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

  Andre Holland

  Singers, Very Good

  "André Holland and the Tragedy of Doctor Edwards". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit .

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Water

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• I took a baby shower.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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