Rainy Quotes - Page 8

• [Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Rainy Day, Visits You

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• So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

  Nicole Krauss

  Past, Rainy Day, Rushing

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.

  Caitlin Moran

  Islands, Space, Imagination

  "Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls" by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Weather, San Francisco

  Attributed in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Nothing stays the same it all gets crushed. It all gets broken. It all passes with time. Only the moment you're in has any meaning." "There are things that stand the test of time, there are things that last. Like love." "Love theres nothing more fragile or ephereal. Love is like fire on a rainy day: you've got to spend all your time protecting it, feeding it, tending it because if you don't it goes out." "There are some loves that last." "No, what lasts is the pain that comes after love.

  Guillaume Musso

  Pain, Rainy Day, Love Is

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• Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

  Austin Grossman

  Children, Hero, Heart

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• A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

  David Niven

  Running, Life And Love, Long

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• The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language." Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts.

  Shannon Hale

  Watches, Frozen, Earth

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.79, A&C Black

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• ... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Rainy Day, Destiny, Men

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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• He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

  Jane Austen

  Rain, Interesting, Departed

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.46, Ageless Reads

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• For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.

  Tate Reeves

  Home, Rainy Day, Government

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• Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

  Joshua Slocum

  Party, Rain, Cities

  Joshua Slocum (2005). “Sailing Alone around the World”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.

  Mary Oliver

  Rainy Day, Chance, Someday

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• It's more about when you come back from being out somewhere; in a minicab or a night bus, or with someone, or walking home across London late at night, dreamlike, and you've still got the music kind of echoing in you, in your bloodstream, but with real life trying to get in the way. I want it to be like a little sanctuary. It's like that 24-hour stand selling tea on a rainy night, glowing in the dark. It's pretty simple.

  Burial

  Real, Home, Dark

  "'Only five people know I make tunes'". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

  Brendan Gill

  Summer, Morning, Order

  BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

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• Time is a resource that is non-renewable and non-transferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day—when it’s lost it is unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Rainy Day, Giving, Remember

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• I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.

  S. J. Perelman

  Inspirational, Sunday, Pearls

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• They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?

  Kate Braverman

  Love, Men, Marijuana

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• The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

  Will Durant

  Summer, Dog, Art

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Book, Men

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• In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

  Moby

  Rainy Day, Rooms, Made

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• There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.

  J. D. Daniels

  Rainy Day, Rocks, Museums

  J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.25, Random House

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• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Rainy Day, Texas

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• It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Sunday, Afternoon, Earth

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 2 'The Pleasures of Opium'

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• Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

  Karen Carpenter

  Monday, Rainy Day

  "Song: "Rainy Days And Mondays" ("Carpenters")". 1971.

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