John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath
The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation
Blunt Blowin
2010s, Tha Carter IV (2011)
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath
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 (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
Quoted by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, The Use of Life, chapter IV: "Recreation" (1894).
Billy Connolly (1942) British comedian
Billy Connolly http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/biography/story/0,6000,556340,00.html <br class="br">Book Sources
“Venus was a machine for making bad weather.”
Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 12 (p. 135)
“You're about as reliable as paper shoes in bad weather.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
Louis Althusser book Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
Source: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968), "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses", p. 117
Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality
[Andy Rooney, w:Andy Rooney, 8, Weather, Years of Minutes, 2003, PublicAffairs, 978-1586482114]
“Hail hero, hail hero, child of the sun
All covered with flowers still having your fun”
Gordon Lightfoot (1938) Canadian singer-songwriter
Theme song of Hail, Hero! (1969), co-written with Jerome Moross
“Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!”
Richard Bertrand Spencer (1978) American white supremacist
"Hail victory" is "the English translation of the Nazi exhortation "Sieg Heil!""