Quotes About Listening To The Rain

#1. I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive because I'm listening to the rain, and the rain becomes the hand of God strumming his fingers on the roof, deciding what to do.

Lisa Genova

#2. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--"

~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

#3. Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.

Gabriel Iglesias

#4. The bath wasn't the best thing. Lying with him spooned up against her, listening to the rain rattle against the glass and his voice like a rolling wave ... that was the best thing.

Charlotte Stein

#5. I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.

Jeff Kinney

#6. Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.

Margaret Craven

#7. It is quite possible that in only seventy years our population will amount to about eleven millions, over half of whom will be old age pensioners.

George Orwell

#8. I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

David Letterman

#9. It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

Niels Bohr

#10. It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

John Cassian

#11. That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.

Alison Krauss

#12. For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

Andy Partridge

#13. I have no reason to believe that the human intellect is able to weave a system of physics out of its own resources without experimental labor. Whenever the attempt had been made it has resulted in an unnatural and self-contradictory mass of rubbish.

Nancy Forbes

#14. Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in ... rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt.

Charles Bukowski

#15. However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.

Na'ama Yehuda

#16. I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

Charles Bukowski

#17. My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

Bernard Moitessier

#18. First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life.

Milan Kundera

#19. The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.

Jane Austen

#20. I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'

David S.Goyer

#21. If manipulation really does increase welfare, then it would seem to be justified and even mandatory on ethical grounds.

Cass R. Sunstein

#22. Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

Ryokan

#23. He had entered sleep's antechamber, the place where dreams and memories mingled, telling their strange stories; yet part of him was still in the car, listening to the rain.

Justin Cronin

#24. Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.

Thomas Berry

#25. There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

Publilius Syrus

#26. Remember this, mes cheres: There is no person so small that the Lord cannot see her, no voice so quiet that He cannot hear it.

Jocelyn Green