Weather Quotes - Page 6

• Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

  Roger Kahn

  Sports, Football, Sex

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• The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

  Carol Shields

  Loneliness, Rehearsal, Comfort

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• There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

  James Montgomery

  Flower, Eye, Sky

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.315

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• During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

  John Dyer

  Winter, Drawing, Work Out

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• And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.

  Tony Parsons

  Stars, Twilight, Cat

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• When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Justice, Needs

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• He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Complaining

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• The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

  Hugh Grant

  Movie, Actors, Moral

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• Suttree surfaced from these fevered deeps to hear a maudlin voice chant latin by his bedside, what medieval ghost come to usurp his fallen corporeality. An oiled thumball redolent of lime and sage pondered his shuttered lids.Miserere mei, Deus ...His ears anointed, his lips ... omnis maligna discordia ... Bechrismed with scented oils he lay boneless in a cold euphoria. Japheth when you left your father's house the birds had flown. You were not prepared for such weathers. You'd spoke too lightly of the winter in your father's heart. We saw you in the streets. Sad.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Latin, Father, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.447, Pan Macmillan

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• I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

  Andre Dubus

  Running, Sunday, Son

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Playing in this nice weather really makes me remember all the times I got stung by a bee.

  John Madden

  Funny, Nice, Nfl

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• It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

  John Lubbock

  Rain, Looks, Window

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

  Menander

  Determination, Fighting, Storm

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• He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

  John Locke

  Night, Doors, Darkness

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.171

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• Losers never know why they are losing. They will mention injuries, the officiating, the weather and bad breaks.

  George Allen

  Losing, Loser, Injury

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• It's bizarre to me that you can have political commentators, sports commentators, weather commentators, but with medicine, people go, "You can't do that."

  Drew Pinsky

  Sports, Medicine, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I used to be mad on the games, but I had to ban myself. I used to spend three dollars on games, [but] it adds up, so now I'm on the social side of things like Twitter and Instagram. I love my weather apps. I guess because all the Brits are obsessed with weather.

  Tom Felton

  Games, Mad, Sides

  "Tom Felton’s Television Villain". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and listening to music.

  Tao Lin

  Nice, Listening, Driving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a big fan of London in the summertime. English people are dependent on weather to change our attitudes, and, provided it's a decent summer, everyone's spirits are uplifted and the whole place is in bloom. It's a magical transformation. London in the summer, going to see bands play outside, watching football.

  Ed Westwick

  Summer, Football, Attitude

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ‎What's the weather like? ... It's fierce mild!

  Dylan Moran

  Fierce

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• There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Twenties, Different

  Address at New England Society's Seventy-First Annual Dinner, New York, N.Y., 22 Dec. 1876

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• When I get to heaven I'm gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear.

  Stephen Hawking

  Guy, Heaven, Kicks

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• An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

  Hugh Leonard

  News, Hurricanes, Homeless

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• I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Fun, Thinking, Careers

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

  Jessica Savitch

  Texas, Waiting, Events

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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