Famous Quotes & Sayings

e. e. cummings

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

Alexander Pope

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

T. S. Eliot

Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

Sophocles

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

Tamara Mellon

Everyone in my office wears it all winter, it's our uniform because it's the easiest thing to wear.

Sylvia Plath

I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Franz Kafka

What am I doing here in this endless winter?

Henry David Thoreau

A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself.

Billy Connolly

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

Chuck Jones

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

Amos Lee

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

Thomas Sowell

Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

Jerome K. Jerome

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Jeff Goodell

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

Jean Rhys

Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

Gregory Maguire

He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.

Hugh Grant

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

Shaun Stenshol

I've always wanted to come to Los Angeles. California is known as an environmentally friendly state and LA is the car capital of the world. What better place to do bio-diesel than Los Angeles?

Jamie Dimon

We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.

R. Robinson

Stacy was this really controlled, fluid skater. And that really carried into his personality. I had been snowboarding my whole life. I went to surf camp in Southern California every year until a few years ago, so I had been surfing for a long time as well. I had more of the surfer style of skating which was cool 'cause it's kind of what I needed to do in the role.

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Michael Marks

Just in one day, we've seen here in California about a 10 percent increase in demand for California products.

Jay Leno

As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

Carly Fiorina

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Today California has given me the greatest gift of all: You've given me your trust by voting for me,

Warren Beatty

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.