Weather Quotes - Page 16

• I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.

  Billy Connolly

  Sexy, Hate, Rain

  "Connolly on the couch". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2001.

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• It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and we hold these truths to be self evident number one George W Bush is not president. Number two America isn't a true democracy. And number three the media is not fooling me.

  Ani DiFranco

  Men, Boys, Two

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• Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

  David R. Brower

  Jobs, Blow, Wind

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• At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didn’t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Reading, Character, Blue

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• The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

  Joan Didion

  Stars, Clouds, Air

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.157, Zola Books

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• The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Reality, Years

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• Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels light. A northerly wind stirs a primal urge to move. The geese feel it, and so do I. Perhaps it is a last internal vestige from a time, long ago, when we migrated with the seasons across open plains, following the animals we pursued for food. Perhaps that is why the sight of migrating geese arrests our attention, why we feel the pull. We want to go, to travel in fresh or moody weather, taking in each newly revealed vista.

  Carl Safina

  Beautiful, Moving, Animal

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• I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

  Leigh Hunt

  Book, Reading, Sorrow

  Leigh Hunt (1835). “The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side”, p.183

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• Situations emerge in the process of creative destruction in which many firms may have to perish that nevertheless would be able to live on vigorously and usefully if they could weather a particular storm.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Creative, Storm, Would Be

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.90, Routledge

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• We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come through helping boys and girls reach beyond the ordinary and strive for the extraordinary. We must teach our children to weather the hurricanes of life, pick up the pieces, and rebuild. We must impress upon our children that even when troubles rise to seven-point- one on life's Richter scale, they must be anchored so deeply that, though they sway, they will not topple

  Mamie Till

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson (2011). “Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America”, p.8, Random House

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• Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't science. Science is the study of all things that affect human beings. They have to be together! A meteorologist has difficulty talking with a sociologist, because they don't understand each other. You can't teach sciences in 'bits'; you have to bring it all together. Science is a way of thinking - a way at arriving at conclusions without your own opinion in it.

  Jacque Fresco

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Hate, People, Sweden

  "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who?". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

  Michael Medved

  Complaining, Television, Notes

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• I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

  Elmore Leonard

  Book, Pages, Description

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• Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.

  Moby

  Eye

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• If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Talking

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• Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.

  James Gleick

  New York, Butterfly, Air

  Chaos prologue (1987)

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• In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

  Peter Garrett

  Australia, Climate, Patterns

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rain, Independent, Rocks

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• Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Keys, Light

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• For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Fall, Opportunity, Snow

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• It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.

  Thomas Fleming Day

  Nautical, Sail

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• The weather's cold. My club's bad. My knee hurts. I can't putt no more. I'm off my diet. My wife is nagging me. Other than that, everything's great.

  Don Zimmer

  Hurt, Wife, Clubs

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• Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art. An important aspect of the complex is the protected paradise garden, which is separated from the wild landscape by thick masonry walls. The materials used in the structure, including concrete block, car-decking, and plywood, require little to no maintenance, and are capable of withstanding the extreme weather that characterize the desert’s four seasons.

  Tom Kundig

  Art, Wall, Block

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• T hanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather.
  H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday.
  A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart.
  N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember.
  K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon.
  S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that about.
  That spells THANKS for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.

  Aileen Fisher

  Art, Nice, Home

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