Rain Shadow Quotes

#1. At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

John Millington Synge

#2. He stepped on my shadow. I could not walk. And then I could not breathe. I did not know what had happened until it happened. It was like trying to stop the rain.

Jennifer Clement

#3. If a shred of integrity fell into your soul, it would die a very lonely death.

Jasper Fforde

#4. Bob Dylan sang about a hard rain that was going to fall, and Shadow wondered if that rain had fallen yet, or if it was something that was still going to happen.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay."
The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that concealed the warping of her shadow. It was going to kill people.

Erin Bow

#6. There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

James A. Michener

#7. In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.

David Levithan

#8. However miserable your situation, there is always something to learn.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Faye Elms didn't become a member of a unit called Red Rifles because she looked pretty holding one. But she was packing buckshot this time, and Orion had no intention of meeting his maker by a shotgun-wielding woman wearing a soft yellow summer dress.

R.R. Washburn

#10. the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They

George Orwell

#11. One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

Douglas Hofstadter

#12. Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow.

Ray Bradbury

#13. Be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

Ray Wilkins

#14. You say that you love rain,
but you open your umbrella when it rains.
You say that you love the sun,
but you find a shadow spot when the sun shine.
You say that you love the wind,
but you close your windows when wind blows.
This is why I am afraid,you say that you love me too.

Anonymous

#15. It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

Tim Finn

#16. The key for having success is totally rejecting thoughts that try to sow doubts into your conscience

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Every time I am in the dark and a bit of light falls on me, I see a bit of you in my shadows. There is always a bit of you in every song I hear, in every thought I conceive, in every rain that I drench in, in every star that I stare at in the sky every night and in every breeze that touches me.

Akshay Vasu

#18. great men take and overtake risk tactically

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. And the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.

Stephen King

#20. Jamie's own face was lined with shadow, the firelight showing the mark of time and struggle on his flesh as wind and rain mark stone.

Diana Gabaldon

#21. He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain.

Diana Palmer

#22. Let your speech be true and sweet.

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

#23. To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Ben Stein

#25. You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

Al Hirschfeld

#26. The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

Anne Michaels