Best rain & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.”

Thinking Mean Art Made Film Dog Rain Hardest Hopefully Racing

Author:Garth Stein

“We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.”

Thinking Rain Soldier Cloaks

Author:Maurice de Saxe

“A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Book Stories Information Rain Library Dictionary Places To Go Encyclopedia

Author:E. B. White

“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.”

Source: A Boy's Will

“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.”

“Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.”

Thinking Kids Loneliness College Poet Walking Rain

Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“I avoid the carwash when I think it might rain anytime in the near future, which means I drive around the majority of the time in a pollen and bird poop covered car. This presents a stand off between Neat Freakshow and Practical Pennypincher, and Neat Freak usually triumphs. And then it rains.”

Thinking Mean Might Car Bird Rain Majority Practicals Triumph Covered Freak Neat Poop Pollen

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" - that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.”

Thinking Doe Important Natural Forget Humility Rain Offensive Modest Delightful Dogmatic Artifice Essayists Forget Him

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.”

People Thinking Want Giving Reason Happens Father Water Economy Picks Rain Good Things Things Happen Crops Rain Water Good Rain

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.”

Thinking Art Tree Rain Areas Clouds Giants Native Native American Pacific Pacific Northwest

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.”

Thinking World Want Looks Bigs Dies Building Goes On Rain Diets Maps Wet Small Things Leather Gloves Wanting To Die I Want To Die

Author:Kobo Abe

“Some people might think Rain is the superstar or super successful, but I am someone who always sets new goals and tries to accomplish them.”

People Thinking Trying Might Goal Successful Rain Accomplish Superstar New Goal

Author:Rain

“When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.”

Thinking Book Dark Fire Wind Rain Window Driving Voyages Sleet

Book:The Long Voyage

Source: The Long Voyage

“The rain of matter upon sense Destroys me momently. The score: There comes what will come.”

Thinking Matter Rain Thoughtful Score

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.”

People Thinking Way Mean Stills Real Moments Values Water Plans Rain Appreciate Let Me Sells Environmental Celebrate Festivals Utility Meaninglessness Gratuity

Book:Raids on the Unspeakable

Source: Raids on the Unspeakable

“I think all cinematographers, at least most of them, would love to do everything on location because you cannot cheat on location. It's there, it's part of the story usually. You have to deal with the elements. You have the sunshine, you have rain, you have fog - it really makes you work harder to try to match things during the day to make it look like it was shot within five minutes, movie time.”

Thinking Trying Looks Stories Deals Five Minutes Hard Work Elements Shots Rain Harder Sunshine Cheat Location Fog Five Minutes Work Harder Cinematographers

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.”

Thinking Film Actors Acting Depends Safe Rain Hollywood

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I think that request made me more alert to mushrooms, and now they've cropped up in my work, the way mushrooms themselves do after rain, quite a lot. But I've only just now taken up mushroom hunting, after going to a class offered at my local library.”

Thinking Way Writing Made Class Taken Rain Library Locals Hunting Introduction Request Mushrooms Anthology

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.”

Ifs Thinking World Lines Perfect Path Rain Snow Around The World Heat Fog Straight Lines Rain And Snow

Book:Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

Source: Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

“Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old love because it's so-intricate. Perhaps there is another name for it, one we don't yet know. I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you'd look at your skin and say Water, you would also wake in the morning and say Love. But it has been underneath, this new and old thing I feel, subterranean, silent and steady, like blood, rushing along and along without often making itself known.”

Thinking Knows Feels Looks Has Beens Feelings Used Fall Names Water Simple Love Is Known Morning Blood Rain Skins Silent Steady Rushing Intricate Old Things Old Love Rain Falling

Author:Jane Hamilton

“In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.”

“I was thinking I would miss the rain. I wonder if you can experience the rain in Heaven, if God will let you dip your wings down... But my biggest expectation now is just to live. I will not go gently into that goodnight.”

Ifs Thinking Heaven Wonder Missing Expectations Rain Wings Gods Will Dip

Author:Farrah Fawcett

“People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.”

People Thinking Reality Courses Fiction Tvs Rain Producers Discovering Frozen Living On Tents Freezing

Book:Conversations

Source: Conversations

“I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.”

Thinking Feels Should Long Waiting Opinion Rain Snow Journalist

Author:Marc Jacobs

“We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain? Being grateful in times of distress does not mean that we are pleased with our circumstances. It does mean that through the eyes of faith we look beyond our present-day challenges. This is not a gratitude of the lips but of the soul. It is a gratitude that heals the heart and expands the mind.”

“I've been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I've been collecting their albums on CD -- right now I really like 'I Put a Spell on You.' I don't know who actually wrote it; it might be a traditional, or like, an old blues song, I haven't looked in the liner notes, but it's the first song on their first album. I love all the hits; I mean @#$%&, I like every one of them. I think my favorite song by John Fogerty is 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' They're my favorite American band of all time, totally.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Mean Real Might Song Havens Right Now Band Rain Notes My Favorite Albums Traditional All Time Kicks Spells Collecting Cds Favorite Song Credence

Author:Ben Kweller

“The second show [Judas Priest] there was a point where I stood back. We had a 40-foot ramp that went out into the crowd. Rob came out on the bike. It was raining. He drove the bike to the end of the ramp. I'm standing there looking at him. Rain coming down. Lights flashing. Blue smoke everywhere from the bike. He's on the bike with his metal horns in the air, and there were 30,000 people in front of him screaming. I remember thinking, "This is real."”

People Thinking Real Ends Shows Light Remember Air Feet Fronts Rain Standing Blue Crowds Smoke Priests Metals Bike Horns Standing There Judas Ramp Judas Priest

Author:Richie Faulkner

“Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human.”

Thinking Want Years Humans Character Remember Reading Kings Rain Years Ago Passages

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.”

“Surfing and music have always been two completely separate things in my life, and a lot of people, especially in the UK, don't really get surfing very much. They think it's the Californian dream. They're like, "Oh, so you're a surfer and you're this and that," and it's like, I go surfing because I like the outdoors. In England it's freezing cold, and it's usually dark and raining and it's the middle of winter, and you do it because it's invigorating. It's like going on a walk in some remote place on the planet. It's really - it's not very glamorous.”

People Thinking Dream Dark Cold Rain Winter Surfing Glamorous

Author:Ben Howard

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”

Thinking Nice Food Judging Rain Cooking Fishes Culinary Wet

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”

Thinking Stills Faces Night Felt Sleep Heard Middle Cry Bed Rain Window Dry Slips Weeping Middle Of The Night Dripping Night Thinking

Author:Ray Bradbury

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

Thinking Home Strange Rain Nostalgia Roof

Book:Faulkner's county: tales of Yoknapatawpha county

Source: Faulkner's county: tales of Yoknapatawpha county

“Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Hard Fall Given Christ Hours Watches Knowing Comedy Missing Jokes Rain Window Heavy London Staring Flats Nerves Not Knowing Tire Exhaustion

Author:Martin Amis

“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.”

Source: The lightning thief

“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”

People Thinking Years Country Night Sound Walks Sun Quiet Late Rain Rivers Empty Passing Passings Hills Autumn Twilight Closets Coal Midnight Fog Mist Noon Dusk Cellars Attics Pantry

Book:THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

“What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.”

Thinking Joy Rain Glad Grieving Unexpected Throat

Book:The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”

People Thinking Men Littles Book Hard Strong Rain Hot Blue Complicated Coffee Cups Contentment Little Things Shelter Cigarette Someone You Love

Book:A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

“Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."”

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

People Ifs Thinking Rooms Rain Bottom Unrequited Love Hurricanes Alaska Unrequited Looking For Alaska Book Bunk Drizzle

Book:Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. --- And we, who always think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost baffles us when a happy thing falls.”

Thinking Feels Might Earth Fall Black Emotion Tree Spring Rain Direct Empty Rising Descending Emblems Happy Things Early Spring

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don't mean the big fraternity party kind of movie. More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. I think something like that would be very good for him, especially if the girl were unconventionally beautiful. They are the best kind of girls, I think. I personally find 'super models' strange. I don't know why this is.”

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“Nobody tells her to shut up. It would be pointless. Amy has a large heart and an even larger mouth. When it rains, Amy rescues worms off the sidewalk. When you get tired of having a secret, you tell Amy. Understand: Amy isn't that much stupider than anyone else in the story. It's just that she thinks out loud.”

Thinking Heart Stories Would Be Secret Mouths Rain Tired Loud Rescue Shut Up Worms Pointless Amy Sidewalk

Book:Pretty Monsters

Source: Pretty Monsters

“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.”

“You're a good Irishman, right?" When Butch nodded, V said, "Irish, Irish… let me think. Yeah…" Vishous's eyes sobered, and in a voice that cracked, he said, "May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. And… my dearest friend… until we meet again may the Lord hold you in the palm of His hand.”

Thinking May Said Hands Eye Faces Fall Voice Lord Sun Fields Wind Rain Let Me Yeah Shining Warm Your Face Palms Cracked Sun Shines Irishmen Vishous Dearest Friend Until We Meet Again

Author:J.R. Ward

“I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Rain Somewhere Else Right Road Phantom Tollbooth Wrong Road

Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

“If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.”

Ifs Thinking Cry Rain Drunk Girlfriend Zeus

Book:Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

“He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and drove away. I remember thinking that this was somehow romantic, as it pinpointed the actual memory of my mother's departure, something you don't see a lot of in television. Real people don't slam doors without opening them five minutes later because it's raining and they forgot their umbrella. They don't stop dead in their tracks because they realize they're in love with their best friend.They don't say, "I'm leaving you, Jack," and fade to a paper towel commercial.”

“Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Dream Eye Gone Happened Arms Terrible Kissing Rain Corners Horrible What If Links Sleeves Taunting

Book:The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

“This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!”

Thinking Knows World Years Wells Littles Bigs Used Grows Growing Week Months Couple One Day Rain Plant Boxes Coffee Innocent Ems Yards Bad Day Choke Eggshells Bad Years

Author:Tom Waits

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