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Just because the rain is pouring, doesn't mean you can't leave lightning in your wake.
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Firework - Katy Perry
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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E. Wilson
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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
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Colin Wilson
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I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.
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Michelle Wie
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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
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Theodore White
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Mae West
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When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
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Dennis Weaver
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You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
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Denzel Washington
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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Edmund Waller
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Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
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Paul Verlaine
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I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.
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Billy Thornton
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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
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Donna Tartt
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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
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Casey Stengel
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Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
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John Steinbeck
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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.
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Joshua Slocum
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Author:
Edith Sitwell
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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
Author:
Herbert Simon
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Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.
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Michael Servetus
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My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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John Ruskin
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I like rain, actually.
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Bill Rodgers
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I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.
Author:
Bill Rodgers
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It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
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James Riley
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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
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Jane Quinn
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It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.
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Alain Prost
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If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
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William Phelps
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I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.
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Piper Perabo
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
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Dolly Parton
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.
Author:
Alan Parker
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In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.
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Mike Oldfield
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
Author:
Bill Nighy
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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Pablo Neruda
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What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?
Author:
Anna Neagle
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I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.
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Johnny Nash
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Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
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Dwight Morrow
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Thomas More
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The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.
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Helen Moody
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Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
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Roger Miller
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Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?
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Bob Merrill
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Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
Author:
John McGahern
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It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
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Francis Maude
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I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.
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Katherine Mansfield
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
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Lucretius
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.
Author:
Meriwether Lewis
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Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.
Author:
Drew Lewis
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The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Author:
Hugh Latimer
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You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
Author:
William Langewiesche
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In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.
Author:
Jerzy Kosinski
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When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.
Author:
Tom Kite
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The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Author:
Charles Kingsley
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I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.
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Duke Kahanamoku
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If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.
Author:
Stephanie Jones
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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Author:
Douglas Jerrold
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One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant.
Author:
Derek Jacobi
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Langston Hughes
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Author:
Langston Hughes
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Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
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Billie Holiday
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There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Author:
Audrey Hepburn
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I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.
Author:
Daniela Hantuchova
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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
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Frederick Great
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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Author:
Helen Garner
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This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
Author:
Du Fu
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Author:
Robert Frost
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My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Author:
Robert Frost
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I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.
Author:
Arthur Freed
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It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?
Author:
Linda Fiorentino
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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Ferdowsi
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A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.
Author:
Ray Evans
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Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.
Author:
Michael Ende
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I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.
Author:
John Elway
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You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
Author:
Black Elk
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Author:
George Eliot
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Author:
Marian Edelman
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I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Author:
Clint Eastwood
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If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Author:
Clint Eastwood
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While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.
Author:
John Dyer
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Author:
Leo Durocher
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I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
Author:
Anthony Doerr
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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
Author:
James Dickey
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Author:
Don DeLillo
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The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
Author:
Jack Dee
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I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
Author:
Robin Day
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Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
Author:
Bobby Darin
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I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.
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William Dampier
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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e. cummings
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
Author:
David Copperfield
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Author:
Leonard Cohen
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I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
Author:
John Cleveland
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Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Author:
Frank Clark
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I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.
Author:
Thomas Church
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There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.
Author:
Linford Christie
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It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.
Author:
Morris Chestnut
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers.
Author:
Andrew Cherry
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
Author:
John Cheever
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
Author:
John Cheever
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The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.
Author:
Henry Chadwick
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Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.
Author:
Jonathan Carroll
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I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.
Author:
Chris Burke
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Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries.
Author:
Norman Borlaug
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Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
Author:
Arna Bontemps
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My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.
Author:
Honor Blackman
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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Author:
Henry Beston
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That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.
Author:
Michael Berryman
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I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.
Author:
Halle Berry
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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
Author:
Peter Benchley
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I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.
Author:
Glenn Beck
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Author:
Saint Basil
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It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
Author:
Dave Barry
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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
Author:
Tom Barrett
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
Author:
W. Auden
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We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.
Author:
Peter Akinola
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
Author:
Eden Ahbez
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
Author:
Douglas Adams
