“I went on a date with a weather girl, we talked up a storm.”
Jay London (1966) American comedian
One-liners
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“I went on a date with a weather girl, we talked up a storm.”
Jay London (1966) American comedian
One-liners
“Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.”
Richard Hovey (1864–1900) American writer
Act i. Sc. 3.
The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)
“An option hides where we don't want it to hide.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 184
“No, here ’s to the pilot that weathered the storm!”
George Canning (1770–1827) British statesman and politician
The Pilot that weathered the Storm.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter II Planning a Model World
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) American judge
Epigraph, Ch. 1 : Mount Shasta; this appears as "To Mount Shasta" in In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890), p. 126
Variant: I saw the lightning's gleaming rod
Reach forth and write upon the sky
The awful autograph of God.
This variant was cited as being in The Ship in the Desert in the 10th edition of Familiar Quotations (1919) by John Bartlett, but this appears to be an incorrect citation of a misquotation first found in The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1910), edited by Elizabeth Bislande, p. 161.
Shadows of Shasta (1881)
Context: Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt
I knew thee, in thy glorious youth,
And loved thy vast face, white as truth;
I stood where thunderbolts were wont
To smite thy Titan-fashioned front,
And heard dark mountains rock and roll;
I saw the lightning's gleaming rod
Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll
The awful autograph of God!