“The word for smoke should look like smoke -- the word for rain should look like rain…”

One of the calligraphers
The Pillow Book

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The word for smoke should look like smoke -- the word for rain should look like rain…" by Peter Greenaway?
Peter Greenaway photo
Peter Greenaway 266
British film director 1942

Related quotes

A.A. Milne photo

“Tut, Tut, looks like rain”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain.”

James Agate (1877–1947) British diarist and critic

Ego 8 (1947), p. 255, November 25, 1945
Of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.

Ernesto Che Guevara photo
Nick Diaz photo

“Training and smoking pot like I should, instead of paying attention to other bullshit”

Nick Diaz (1983) American mixed martial artist

Diaz defending his hobby of smoking marijuana

Viktor Yanukovych photo

“Healthcare is the field which should go ahead, like smoke from a steam train.”

Viktor Yanukovych (1950) Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine

2012
Source: [Янукович: Медицина должна идти впереди, как дым от паровоза, https://zn.ua/POLITICS/yanukovich_meditsina_dolzhna_idti_vperedi,_kak_dym_ot_parovoza_.html, 2022-06-12, Mirror Weekly]

Vivian Stanshall photo

“The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain…”

Vivian Stanshall (1943–1995) English musician, artist and author

opening of side 2)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)

Donald J. Trump photo

“I looked out, the field was, looked like million, million and a half people. They showed a field where there was practically nobody standing there. And they said, "Donald Trump did not draw well." I said, "It was almost raining!" The rain should've scared them away but God looked down and said we're not going to let it rain on your speech.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Trump speaking at the CIA Headquarters about his inauguration crowd and the press coverage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMBqDN7-QLg, FOX 10 Phoenix (21 January 2017)
2010s, 2017, January

Tod A photo

“Every word I never spoke dies like a spark smothered in smoke pulled from the glow of a shitty cigarette.”

Tod A (1965) American musician

"Feels Like the End of the World", The Golden Hour (May 6, 2008).
Lyrics, Firewater

Related topics