„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, so get yourself a sexy raincoat and live a little.“
Billy Connolly http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/biography/story/0,6000,556340,00.html
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skót színész 1942Hasonló idézetek
„We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating.“
— John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath 1834 - 1913
The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation
„There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.“
— John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900
Quoted by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, The Use of Life, chapter IV: "Recreation" (1894).
„All hail Weezy, call it bad weather“
— Lil Wayne American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman 1982
Blunt Blowin
2010s, Tha Carter IV (2011)
„You're about as reliable as paper shoes in bad weather.“
— Brandon Boyd American rock singer, writer and visual artist 1976
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
„President Reagan must be happy over how bad the weather's been this winter, because its the one thing no one's blaming on him. Theres nothing television news likes better than bad weather, and we sure get a lot of it in the United States.“
— Andy Rooney writer, humorist, television personality 1919 - 2011
[Andy Rooney, w:Andy Rooney, 8, Weather, Years of Minutes, 2003, PublicAffairs, 978-1586482114]
„But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.“
— Jerome K. Jerome, könyv Three Men in a Boat
Forrás: Three Men in a Boat
„Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses.“
— Franz Halder German general 1884 - 1972
May 30, 1940 diary entry, quoted in "The Struggle for Europe" - Page 20 - by Chester Wilmot - History - 1972.
Sourced Encyclopedia of the Third Reich Louis L. Snyder
„Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.“
— Richard Hovey American writer 1864 - 1900
Act i. Sc. 3.
The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)
„Me like hot weather, veree hot. I no run fast cold weather. No get warm in cold. No get warm, no play gut. You see.“
— Roberto Clemente Puerto Rican baseball player 1934 - 1972
As quoted and paraphrased in "The Scoreboard" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bkEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=000EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4731,2918286 by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Friday, June 10, 1955), p. 30
Baseball-related, <big><big>1950s</big></big>, <big>1955</big>
Kontextus: "I no play so gut yet," the Puerto Rican star tried to explain yesterday. "Me like hot weather, veree hot. I no run fast cold weather. No get warm in cold. No get warm, no play gut. You see." Clemente likes Forbes Field and Connie Mack Stadium the best of all the parks he's played in but has a strong dislike for Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds because of the crazy bounces the balls take as they ricochet off the walls.
„I'm not a Baptist in any formal way. I go to the Baptist church, where my wife plays the piano, on days of bad weather. On days of good weather, I ramble off into the woods somewhere. I am a person who takes the Gospel seriously, but I have had trouble conforming my thoughts to a denomination.“
— Wendell Berry author 1934
The Brian Lehrer Show (17 October 2013) http://www.wnyc.org/story/wendell-berry/
„Too much hate is bad for you," I ventured.
"Why?“
— Jonathan Stroud, könyv The Amulet of Samarkand
"Um..."
The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)
„I get all the news I need from the weather report.“
— Paul Simon American musician, songwriter and producer 1941
The Only Living Boy in New York — released as a single in 1969
Song lyrics, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)
„Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.“
— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961
„A good deal of the corporate planning I have observed is like a ritual rain dance; it has no effect on the weather that follows, but those who engage in it think it does. Moreover, it seems to me that much of the advice and instruction related to corporate planning is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather.“
— Russell L. Ackoff Scientist 1919 - 2009
Forrás: 1980s, Creating the Corporate Future, 1981, p. ix in the Preface: "Creating the Corporate Future: Plan or be Planned For," Wiley, April 27, 1981
„Yes, today we have genuine Russian weather. Yesterday we had Swedish weather. I can't understand why your weather is so terrible. Maybe it is because you are immediate neighbours of NATO.“
— Nikita Khrushchev First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1894 - 1971
At a Swedish-Soviet summit which began on March 30, 1956, in Moscow. The stenographed discussion was later published by the Swedish Government.as quoted in Raoul Wallenberg (1985) by Eric Sjöquist, p. 119 ISBN 9153650875
„There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.“
— Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971
Forrás: The Lords and The New Creatures
„The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away, and the weather is clear again.“
— Ryōkan Japanese Buddhist monk 1758 - 1831
Zen Poetics of Ryokan (2006)
Kontextus: The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away, and the weather is clear again.
If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure.
Abandon this fleeting world, abandon yourself,
Then the moon and flowers will guide you along the Way.
