Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

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.

J. D. Salinger

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

Carrie Brownstein

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

Antoine Lavoisier

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

Connie Chung

are an incredible couple, with an edge. Even when they argue, you just know there's a great emotional tie between them. Sometimes they do it for sport, sometimes just to wind the other person up.

Mark Calcavecchia

I've always been an emotional player, I'm an emotional guy,

Joe Williams

A friend of mine once said that hate is too important an emotion to waste on someone you don't like. And I've tried desperately to get my psyche in shape to more or less fend off any of those feeling that are going to mar my life.

Kate Winslet

Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

Craig Swartout

Sometimes, because they're young, they don't harness their emotions like they're supposed to and it can hurt them. And we try to let them know that it can hurt the team, too.

Jonathan Demme

Seeing Neil Young expressing these lyrics and seeing the emotions that register on his face in his style of presentation is a sublime extra for understanding his music.

Tim Gallagher

You're giving up a little in sound and trunk space, and paying a little higher pricing. But it's a more emotional purchase. It gets you out of the mode of taking kids around to soccer games.

Brett Hoebel

If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

Lil' Kim

It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

Alphonse Lamartine

Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet

Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Allen Ginsberg

Scientist alone is true poet.