Thunderstorm Quotes - Page 2

• Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness--but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Morning, Flower

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• Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

  W. H. Auden

  Years, Uniforms, Talent

  1940 'The Novelist'.

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• If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Religion, Lightning

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

  Raymond Khoury

  Men, Dancing, Tunes

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• The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

  Thomas Beecham

  Skeletons, Two, Musical

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• With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Fire, Bird

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• I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

  James Thurber

  Fall, Simple, Expression

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• Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

  Helen McCloy

  California, Larger Than Life

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• I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Night, Heartache, Littles

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• I'm from Cleveland. I like thunderstorms; I like a little rain in my life.

  The Miz

  Rain, Cleveland, Littles

  "Interview: Mike Mizanin and Francia Raisa Talk Christmas Bounty". Press Conference, www.shockya.com. November 26, 2013.

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• In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Mean, Self

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• I think any genuine leader today has to learn leadership the hard way-by doing it. That means embracing turbulence and crisis, not avoiding it. It means "flying through the thunderstorm." That's not to say that there are no basic principles to orient you to the challenge. Indeed, I describe some in the book. But there are no simple recipes. Until you have lived it, you don't really know how to do it. That's what I mean by "leadership the hard way."

  Dov Frohman

  Leadership, Book, Mean

  "Why Leadership Is Like Flying Through a Thunderstorm: An Interview with Dov Frohman". Interiew with Robert Howard, www.leadershipthehardway.com.

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• I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

  Tana French

  Cutting, Ozone, Orange

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.345, Hachette UK

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• We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Marriage, Teacher, Men

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• Percy: I thought I’d lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. “Food!” It was terrifying, man.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Fighting, Men

  Rick Riordan (2010). “Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files: The Demigod Files”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

  David Letterman

  Good Times, Allegiance, Bird Flu

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• Pregnant
  and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that
  gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental
  forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have
  to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that
  you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Mother, Law, Earthquakes

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.270, Book Publishing Company

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• She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.

  Ken Follett

  Love You, Lions, Rage

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.987, Penguin

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• Here we go. Kerrick was as subtle as a thunderstorm.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Subtle

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Touch of Power”, p.99, MIRA

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• I feel an extremely annoyed thunderstorm nearby," Kade warned. "Actually, I'm the one annoyed. The thunderstorm could go either way." - Storm Glass

  Maria V. Snyder

  Glasses, Annoyed, Storm

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• Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but I miss the thunderstorms.

  Ashley Scott

  Missing, South Carolina, Different

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• We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the storm to pass before they went in. It was actually an awesome chance for the couple to have some quiet time together after their ceremony.

  Julie Roberts

  Couple, Rainy Day, Waiting

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• The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

  Tom Robbins

  Black, Necklaces, Rooms

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.370, Bantam

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• Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way.

  Melissa Walker

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind Blowing

  Melissa Walker (2012). “Unbreak My Heart”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cute, Rainbow, Together

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “Scandal In Spring: Number 4 in series”, p.41, Hachette UK

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