Rain Quotes

‘You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.’ – Denzel Washington

‘Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.’ – Hosea Ballou

‘The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.’ – Dolly Parton

‘Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.’ – Ashley Smith

‘Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.’ – Jesus Christ

‘The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.’ – John Ruskin

‘And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.’ – Langston Hughes

‘Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.’ – Roger Miller

‘A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.’ – Robert Frost

‘Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.’ – John Updike

‘One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.’ – John Steinbeck

‘I’ve always found the rain very calming.’ – Venus Williams

‘Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.’ – Billie Holiday

‘I’m continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature’s greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people’s faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.’ – Matthew Williamson

‘Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.’ – Warren Buffett

‘The rain begins with a single drop.’ – Manal al-Sharif

‘Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.’ – Frank A. Clark

‘A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.’ – Frederick the Great

‘It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.’ – George Eliot

‘I love the rain. It’s my favorite weather.’ – Kristen Wiig

‘If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?’ – Tom Barrett

‘Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. ‘Black Rain’ was very much about choices. The message – we are what we chose to be.’ – Graham Brown

‘Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they’re thirsty. That’s prayer. They don’t live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.’ – Mary Oliver

‘The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.’ – Lucretius

‘I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.’ – Sophie Marceau

‘Without rain, there is no life.’ – Jerry Yang

‘Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one’s voice.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘If you think it’s going to rain, it will.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.’ – Casey Stengel

‘I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.’ – Eden Ahbez

‘I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.’ – Pablo Neruda

‘I am like the rain: I go where I’m needed.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.’ – Leonard Cohen

‘There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘Playing golf in the rain is just hard, it’s just hard.’ – Shane Lowry

‘Rain symbolizes darkness but also represents an essential part of rebirth.’ – Sabrina Claudio

‘I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.’ – Amy Purdy

‘Soul mate and rain are perfect combination.’ – Amrapali Gupta

‘My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.’ – W. H. Auden

‘Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.’ – Edmund Waller

‘The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.’ – Helen Garner

‘The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.’ – Henry Beston

‘I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?’ – Douglas Adams

‘For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.’ – Thomas More

‘Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.’ – Saint Basil

‘One must know the so-called ‘lesson of a downpour.’ A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.’ – Yamamoto Tsunetomo

‘And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.’ – Ferdowsi

‘Potential is like a summer crop. If it don’t rain, it don’t grow.’ – Charles Oakley

‘Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.’ – Arna Bontemps

‘Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain.’ – Mae West

‘It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.’ – James Whitcomb Riley

‘A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.’ – e. e. cummings

‘If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn’t choose rain only for bad people.’ – Mariano Rivera

‘You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.’ – Leo Durocher

‘Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.’ – Dwight Morrow

‘I don’t see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn’t need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.’ – Joy Harjo

‘We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.’ – Haile Selassie

‘Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.’ – Katherine Mansfield

‘Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state – not appearing to fill Longfellow’s measure: ‘Into each life, some rain must fall.” – Mary Todd Lincoln

‘If man doesn’t learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.’ – Peter Benchley

‘Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.’ – Paul Verlaine

‘The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.’ – John Tyler Bonner

‘Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: ‘After a heavy rainfall, poems titled ‘Rain’ pour in from across the nation.” – Sylvia Plath

‘I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.’ – Daniel Gillies

‘Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won’t feel so thankful then.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn’t drink it herself – that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.’ – Munshi Premchand

‘The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, ‘Mother, don’t just stand there in the rain. Go home.” – Les Dawson

‘Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That’s one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.’ – Nancy Gibbs

‘The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown can never come over again.’ – Charles Kingsley

‘It’s a relief to hear the rain. It’s the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood.’ – Alice Oswald

‘Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I’ll keep providing the parade.’ – David Lee Roth

‘A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.’ – James Dickey

‘A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag.’ – Jane Birkin

‘Prince turned experimental music into pop music. ‘When Doves Cry,’ the whole ‘Purple Rain’ soundtrack – he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt ‘House of Balloons’ was.’ – The Weeknd

‘Into each life some rain must fall.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘A cantor, when he starts singing, it’s like rain – once it starts, it’s hard to stop.’ – Sholom Aleichem

‘I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.’ – Conor McGregor

‘If you’re lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.’ – Peter Zumthor

‘It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It’s like disapproving of rain.’ – Francis Maude

‘Certain emotions just take you to the notes – being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they’re in the rain. And they look fat and gross.’ – Pamela Anderson

‘Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.’ – Michael W. Smith

‘He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.’ – Douglas William Jerrold

‘I’m from Holland, and I’m used to rain.’ – Marianne Vos

‘I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.’ – Arthur Freed

‘I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I’m waiting for it to stop, and the team’s manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he’s already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, ‘If you screw this up, they will boo you.’ And I said ‘Thanks.” – Julia Stiles

‘In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.’ – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

‘Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.’ – Langston Hughes

‘Rain – his power and charisma onstage is impressive, and I hope to have that one day.’ – Jeongyeon

‘When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.’ – Dennis Weaver

”Philistines’ was so beautiful, and it bored me to death. I never want to see another production where the rain splashes against a window and actors wander around in drab cardigans saying, ‘I’m so bored.” – John Tiffany

‘No weather forecaster can tell you for sure when to wear a rain slicker, stock up on canned goods, or evacuate a city that’s in a cyclone’s path. All forecasters can offer is their best guess at the atmosphere of the future, whispered by the simulated blue marble and wrapped up in uncertainty.’ – Hannah Fry

‘I’m not very good in the rain. I don’t wear a golf glove.’ – Fred Couples

‘It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.’ – Dave Barry

‘AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.’ – Richard Preston

‘If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘A seed depends on a whole host of factors to grow – from the fertility of the soil to the right mix of rain and sun to not being eaten by a passing bird. The same goes for an idea. For an idea to really take hold, other factors come into play, from timing to the emerging technology that makes it possible.’ – Taavet Hinrikus

‘For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.’ – John Cheever

‘I did every odd job you could possibly imagine: Holding a sign in the rain for 14 hours straight, sweeping up cigarette butts, pouring coffee, running around – anything I could to be on a film set. I wanted to be in the business. So I’d say, ‘You need that job done? Fine,’ and I became indispensable to people.’ – Michelle MacLaren

‘In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.’ – Jerzy Kosinski

‘My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.’ – Robert Frost

‘We run around so much – with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I’ve gotta clean up the oceans. I’ve gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you’re not centered and you don’t have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you’re not going to do a very good job.’ – Ed Begley, Jr.

‘The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew the natural cycle of life. The Mayan people will once again flourish. I believe in this very strongly. The holy men say we are entering a period of clarity. We are rediscovering our Mayan values.’ – Rigoberta Menchu

‘No person has the right to rain on your dreams.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.’ – Deborah Moggach

‘I acted as a mood builder in ‘Love Rain,’ so I thought it was going to be a similar role in ‘Reply 1997.’ Then I found out it was for the role of Yoon Yoon Jae, so I said no. I didn’t think that I was in the position to take such a cool character.’ – Seo In-guk

‘What I fell in love with as a child was ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘Funny Face,’ ‘American in Paris,’ and ‘Singin’ in the Rain.’ Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.’ – Dianna Agron

‘The ‘Wall Street Journal’ is quite irate that I rank them with industry front groups and cranks denying climate change. But they have a record whenever industrial pollutants are involved. Look at the ‘Journal”s commentary on acid rain, on the ozone layer, and on climate change.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘The effect of climate change is not simply to reduce rain during the summer months, but also to increase the number of torrential storms. When the rain falls that hard and fast, it cannot sink into the ground and go down to the aquifers.’ – Nick Davies

‘I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘My favorite movies were ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ and stuff that had a more classic comedy type feel, that more slapsticky stuff. It’s the comedy I’ve gravitated towards.’ – Colleen Ballinger

‘The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don’t create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.’ – Roberto Unger

‘I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in ‘Singin’ In The Rain.” – Carrie Fisher

‘Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.’ – Mariano Rivera

‘God didn’t give up on me. I am somebody in God’s eyes… Let me be a prime example of how I’ve been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.’ – Fantasia Barrino

‘Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.’ – Michael J. Knowles

‘The most amazing live shows that I’ve ever seen were Rain Parade shows.’ – Hope Sandoval

‘The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.’ – Alex Shoumatoff

‘When you’re from Cali and it’s always sunny, you kind of want some rain.’ – Jeffree Star

‘The open street, like the open sea, is an inviting thing to the mind of man. It is one of the few places where all may meet as equals under sun or rain; but only a John Bunyan could adequately portray the danger of the cities with their pitfalls for the young unguarded feet.’ – Edwin Markham

‘I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.’ – Rob Dyrdek

‘I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘I was part of Environment Canada’s work to stop acid rain, create national parks, clean up the Great Lakes, develop new environmental legislation and negotiate the treaty that saved the ozone layer.’ – Elizabeth May

‘Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘When I’m writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.’ – Donna Tartt

‘That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.’ – Michael Berryman

‘May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.’ – Spike Milligan

‘In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.’ – Eden Robinson

‘Driving in the rain, in real life, separates the men from the boys, I’d say.’ – Nicolas Hamilton

‘Most of my memories are the sound of rain on caravan roofs.’ – Kelly Macdonald

‘One of my books, ‘Rain Falling on My Face,’ earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It’s a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.’ – Natsuo Kirino

‘Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.’ – Duke Kahanamoku

‘Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not – we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.’ – Luke Bryan

‘Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It’s very easy to enjoy yourself.’ – Tove Jansson

‘I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.’ – Michelle Wie

‘You can certainly make the case that we’re devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.’ – Black Elk

‘I loved shooting ‘iGo to Japan’ because we got to be outside a lot, and our call times were really late because we had so many night scenes. It was pouring rain, so the cast would huddle together in between takes and drink hot chocolate. Shooting that episode was such a great bonding experience.’ – Jennette McCurdy

‘Our farmers feed the world. They are up before dawn and work till well after sunset. They face any number of challenges they can’t control, from too much rain to not enough, from disease to insect infestations.’ – Luther Strange

‘This morning’s scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.’ – Du Fu

‘I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.’ – William Dampier

‘This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.’ – Cyrano de Bergerac

‘It is personal – deep in my bones and my flesh – the knowledge that we squandered our chance to avoid the climate emergency; to act when it would have been so much easier, as we did to stop acid rain, to save the ozone layer.’ – Elizabeth May

‘Still falls the rain – dark as the world of man, black as our loss – blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.’ – Edith Sitwell

‘When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator.’ – Paul Hawken

‘I’m watching the Weather Channel more than I’ve ever watched it. I’m scared to death it’s going to rain.’ – John Elway

‘A drop of water can’t stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.’ – Sylvie Guillem

‘It was an amazing experience, a dream come true, to sing and act alongside Prince and become dear friends with all the members of The Revolution while filming ‘Purple Rain.’ – Apollonia Kotero’ – Apollonia Kotero

‘I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.’ – Hope Sandoval

‘There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.’ – Don DeLillo

‘The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.’ – Colin Wilson

‘The best time to listen to a politician is when he’s on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he’s exhausted. Then he doesn’t lie.’ – Theodore White

‘The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.’ – John Cheever

‘I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.’ – Billy Bob Thornton

‘I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.’ – Bill Nighy

‘Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine, so fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.’ – Alan Parker

‘Momo listened to everyone and everything – even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees – and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.’ – Michael Ende

‘I am no Poet here; my pen’s the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.’ – John Cleveland

‘Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn’t have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.’ – Herbert A. Simon

‘In summer winter rain or sun, it’s good to be on horseback.’ – Mike Oldfield

‘The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘I like rain, actually.’ – Bill Rodgers

‘I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.’ – Bill Rodgers

‘The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.’ – Jack Dee

‘I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.’ – Thomas Haden Church

‘It’s hard when you see a scene where it’s raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.’ – Morris Chestnut

‘I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn’t really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.’ – Chris Burke

‘My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.’ – Honor Blackman

‘Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.’ – Joshua Slocum

‘It’s like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.’ – Alain Prost

‘Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.’ – William John Wills

‘One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant.’ – Derek Jacobi

‘My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.’ – Ryne Sandberg

‘Salzburg… is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.’ – Jonathan Carroll

‘It didn’t rain today, so I didn’t have to work. Why don’t you have to sit around and wait until it rains?’ – Linda Fiorentino

‘I don’t know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it’s pouring rain and then it’s hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It’s just so confusing.’ – Piper Perabo

‘I think it’s really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.’ – Robin Day

‘When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.’ – Tom Kite

‘There was no money in the sport but we’d be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.’ – Linford Christie

‘Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.’ – Bobby Darin

‘The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper’s landing, opposite another island.’ – Meriwether Lewis

‘While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.’ – John Dyer

‘The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.’ – Helen Wills Moody

‘I’d like to be able to use Storm’s powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.’ – Halle Berry

‘I mean, it’s been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It’s been kind of difficult.’ – Daniela Hantuchova

‘What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks’ rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?’ – Anna Neagle

‘The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.’ – Henry Chadwick

‘Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.’ – Michael Servetus

‘If they’re willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.’ – Stephanie Tubbs Jones

‘I never played inside as a kid – even in the rain I’d go out.’ – Anthony Doerr

‘Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there’s the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.’ – John McGahern

‘I’m just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.’ – David Copperfield

‘If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.’ – William Lyon Phelps

‘You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.’ – William Langewiesche

‘I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ and ‘White Christmas’ – those kind of movies.’ – Lucas Grabeel

‘I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.’ – Glenn Beck

‘I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn’t have a roof. It doesn’t rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.’ – Jon Hamm

‘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

‘I’m glad I don’t have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don’t have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.’ – Fuzzy Zoeller

”Singin’ in the Rain’ was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He’d just sway and sway as he danced.’ – Vanessa Paradis

‘In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn’t raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It’s a very angry sky.’ – Colin Hay

‘Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers’ movement, I have discovered, and I don’t mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn’t cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn’t linked to acid rain.’ – Michael E. Mann

‘You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.’ – Bjorn Borg

‘Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.’ – Venus Williams

‘Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard ‘Little Earthquakes’ all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.’ – Hal Sparks

‘For my birthday this year, my girlfriends – who knew I’d just inherited my dad’s turntable – gave me a carton of albums like ‘Blue Kentucky Girl,’ by Emmylou Harris, and ‘Off the Wall,’ by Michael Jackson. It’s all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can’t have a music collection without Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ – it just can’t be done!’ – Connie Britton

‘We don’t need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth’s surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘Though ‘Fire and Rain’ is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience… And that’s what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it… can be a shared experience.’ – James Taylor

‘Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It’s not as if I sit down and play ‘Fire and Rain’ by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up… the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.’ – James Taylor

‘The irony is that you can’t use real rain to make movies.’ – Greg Kinnear

‘There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I’ve done press with every syndication, every country; I’ve done interviews with people dressed up as cows – there’s honestly nothing that’s gonna intimidate me!’ – Emily Watson

‘I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I’ve done press with every syndication, every country; I’ve done interviews with people dressed up as cows – there’s honestly nothing that’s gonna intimidate me!’ – Emma Watson

‘When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.’ – Paula Poundstone

‘When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.’ – David Suzuki

‘The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won’t name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play ‘Purple Rain.” – Jason Aldean

‘When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.’ – Susan Orlean

‘I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, ‘Nigel’s chief contribution is his presence on the field.’ I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain – and we played anyway.’ – Nigel Rees

‘The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.’ – James Lovelock

‘The seminal elements of what makes a story great – challenge, struggle, resolution – are the same whether we’re talking about story content for a movie such as ‘Rain Man,’ or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.’ – Peter Guber

‘I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal – inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.’ – Michael Nutter

‘A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.’ – Pratibha Patil

‘Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

‘I love performing outside because it’s as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well – you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It’s almost as if there’s a sense of invocation in performance.’ – Florence Welch

‘I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun – out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.’ – Robin Leach

‘Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don’t know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.’ – Christine Pelosi

‘I go running three times a week – outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it’s important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don’t want to lose my breath on stage.’ – Paloma Faith

‘I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you’re going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.’ – Zachary Knighton

‘Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.’ – Mollie King

‘I think the one that’s going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that’s probably going to be made into a film, which is ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain.’ I mean, it’s narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we’ll get to see.’ – Garth Stein

‘I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.’ – Tom Hodgkinson

‘Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.’ – Jack Kornfield

‘I used to listen to ‘Perfect Day’ by Hoku every single day in high school! ‘On this perfect day, nothin’ standin’ in my way… Don’t you try to rain on my perfect day.’ It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.’ – Kara Lindsay

‘I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes – the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers – stood in a corner.’ – Ann Hood

‘The whole background of ‘Avian’ is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.’ – Mac Miller

‘I don’t know why, but rain comes into my head the minute I think of my childhood.’ – Dhanush

‘Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it’s work that takes me all around the globe – from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.’ – Nathan Wolfe

‘If I’m going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.’ – Marisol Nichols

‘I can bring Rain with me everywhere I go, but when she’s in school, I don’t know what I’ll do. The longest I’ve been away from her is three days, and I cried my eyes out. The first day of school will be so hard.’ – Marisol Nichols

‘Baby names are a big debate in my family. Like true Colombian and Puerto Rican families, everybody and their mother is putting their two cents in – everything from Jose to Francisco to Victorio to Rain has been suggested.’ – Paula Garces

‘I want my music to jump off the stage and out of the speakers. When we do ‘Rain Is A Good Thing’ paired back to back with ‘Country Girl,’ it just feels like the roof is fixin’ to come off the place.’ – Luke Bryan

‘I am beyond thrilled to be hitting the road with ‘Singin’ in the Rain.’ As a huge fan of the original movie, the chance to bring this story to life on stage is something I couldn’t pass up, and it’ll be great visiting some of the beautiful theatres on the tour; some I’ve been to previously; some are going to be a brand new experience for me.’ – Maxwell Caulfield

‘Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.’ – Thomas Gibson

‘I like the cold; I don’t have problem with cold, and I don’t have problem with rain either, as long as people are smiling. You know, early in my career, I used to wonder about this fan frenzy, but now I realize that there is genuine love, respect and affection, which makes me very proud to be an actor.’ – Boman Irani

‘Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities.’ – Boman Irani

‘I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.’ – Taylor Swift

‘The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I’m not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don’t want to know what I’m thinking. I don’t really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.’ – Deborah Moggach

‘It doesn’t rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.’ – Hugh Laurie

‘Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.’ – Diane Ackerman

‘I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Rain Man;’ it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘I don’t care where I live, so long as there’s a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.’ – James D. Watson

‘I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It’s an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices – everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.’ – Tom Waits

‘I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there’s a big rain.’ – Pete Seeger

‘I have a very specific memory of watching ‘Singing in the Rain,’ and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that’s what I did.’ – Kat Edmonson

‘My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.’ – Sadie Jones

‘In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.’ – Sadie Jones

‘I like ‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ and ‘A Star Is Born.’ When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.’ – John Carney

‘After I sold my screenplay adaptation of ‘Rain Fall’ to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.’ – Barry Eisler

‘I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name ‘Rain.’ I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn’t turn out well, I wouldn’t have any regrets.’ – Rain

‘Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist enters the U.S. market, I would like him to think, ‘There was an artist called Rain who succeeded in the U.S. market.’ This is my dream.’ – Rain

‘Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.’ – Jeff Merkley

‘Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.’ – Alex Shoumatoff

‘There’s even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology.’ – Sarah Parcak

‘The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There’s hundreds of species within the genus. They’re on every continent except Antarctica, they’re in tropical rain forests, they’re in deserts, they’ve evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they’re capable of incredibly long-distance flights.’ – Michael Dickinson

‘Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it’s going to rain tomorrow.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock – it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother’s house… I had a little attitude.’ – Debi Mazar

‘My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out there in the rain. We didn’t always have a gym to go to.’ – Kevin Love

‘If you’re going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like ‘Purple Rain’ and ‘Thriller’ and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.’ – Dave Sitek

‘More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and the rain god, only vaguely concerned with the political entity known as Guatemala.’ – Stephen Kinzer

‘People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they’re somehow discovering reality, but of course that’s just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘I pay attention to the sun. I’ve worn sunglasses while I play, for years, and apply sunscreen. No matter where I’m playing, there’s a rain suit in my bag, too.’ – Louis Oosthuizen

‘I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.’ – Dan Jenkins

‘To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and ‘Chocolate Rain’ and allusions to ‘Office Space’ and ‘XKCD.’ It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction.’ – Drew Houston

‘Added to the rooster of courses, ‘Tiger Woods 10′ adds in seven new courses from the pristine Bethpage Black, home of this year’s U.S. Open, to the legendary Pinehurst. The Wii Weather Channel will even adjust the forecast to match the fairway because sometimes even the pros have to play in the rain.’ – Rob Manuel

‘Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.’ – Dave Davies

‘With ‘Black Rain,’ I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on ‘Wall Street.’ It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That’s also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.’ – Michael Douglas

‘I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That all says Pacific Northwest to me. Salmon. It really only exists on the Western side of the Cascades.’ – Kyle MacLachlan

‘I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘There was a week where I was depressed with the rain, and people were telling me to get a light box. But I live on the 14th floor of an apartment complex, and I see the Broadway Bridge and Mount Hood, and it keeps me such company. And like true Oregonians, I don’t carry an umbrella anymore.’ – Reggie Lee

‘Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord’s Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.’ – Pico Iyer

‘Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you’re not James Bond.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘If you’re in California, and it’s raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It’s like it’s raining frogs. They’re terrified.’ – Adam Ferrara

‘The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.’ – James Howard Kunstler

‘There’s an image that some of us have of Jackie Onassis, stepping out in the rain, and Maurice Tempelsman is holding her umbrella. We want that man. We want the man to be the concierge and the masseur and the travel booker.’ – Sandra Tsing Loh

‘Obviously, movies, you’re often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you’re on stage, as an actor you’re imagining the environment that you’re in.’ – Peter Jackson

‘One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it’s raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.’ – Kate Winslet

‘The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I’m a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they’ve ever seen it.’ – Sandra Dee

‘I’ve kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.’ – Britt Robertson

‘Rejection is part of the process, so you can’t let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, ‘Sheltering Rain,’ was translated into 11 languages.’ – Jojo Moyes

‘If we see a sad rain, it doesn’t mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That’s an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I’m struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.’ – Karen Joy Fowler

‘I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.’ – Anthony Carmona

‘Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don’t rain on their parade. Don’t say, ‘That’s not true.’ Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.’ – Gail Carson Levine

‘I like the ‘Blackwell’ adventure games, and I’m fond of some of Telltale’s games, like ‘Hector’ and ‘Puzzle Agent’ – simple stories, but fun. I thought ‘Heavy Rain’ was amazing.’ – Jane Jensen

‘We’ve pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds… It’s soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.’ – Chris Avellone

‘If you type ‘Salt Flats’ into YouTube, you’ll find 100 amazing videos that were shot out there, but you won’t find any that were shot in the rain.’ – Casey Neistat

‘In the ’80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn’t part of that whole MTV craze. I did ‘Go Ahead and Rain,’ which was Madeleine Stowe’s first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn’t have to work.’ – J. D. Souther

‘I can remember before ‘Rain Man,’ I just couldn’t get in on anything, any features. After that and it winning the Oscar – the next year, I co-starred in six movies.’ – Beth Grant

‘The fans of ‘Speed’ are very different from the fans of ‘To Wong Foo,’ which are different from ‘Donnie Darko.’ Look at the classics I’ve been in: ‘No Country for Old Men’… ‘Little Miss Sunshine’… ‘Rain Man’ was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?’ – Beth Grant

‘The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth’s plant and animal population. I hadn’t anticipated it would be so loud.’ – Bill Buford

‘Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.’ – Poe Ballantine

‘The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘I’ve seen fire, and I’ve seen rain. I’ve also had to scramble over tundra to get to the Super Bowl and seen baseball turf fields that could fry a fielder’s soles.’ – George Vecsey

‘Reading ‘The Third Sex’ feels a bit like flying in a veering helicopter over a rain forest that is disappearing before one’s eyes.’ – Stacey D’Erasmo

‘In ‘Blade Runner,’ the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth’s inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.’ – Richard Corliss

‘The music is something outside myself that’s also inside myself… Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.’ – John Tavener

‘Hatta always gave the impression of rain. If I was in a real good mood and full of ideas and then happened to encounter Hatta, I felt I was suddenly surprised by a shower of rain and got wet all over the body. My good mood was gone, and also my ideas.’ – Sukarno

‘We can no longer take our own way of life for granted – we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too – and know it ever more deeply – we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live.’ – Stephen Vincent Benet

‘I spend a fair chunk of time in Los Angeles, and after about ten days of warmth and unbroken clear skies, you start to yearn for a bit of good old British gloom and rain!’ – Sean Bean

‘We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow.’ – John Burroughs

‘Remember the Y2K bug? Ahhh, those were the days… I’ll never forget that New Year’s Eve. My wife and I were in Golden Bay dancing with her parents to Abba songs when suddenly, the rain began to fall. I took it as a sign from Mother Nature that everything was gonna be okay. Sure enough, the clock struck 12, and life went on as normal.’ – Rhys Darby

‘I remember the first vinyl I bought: ‘Purple Rain,’ my favorite Prince album, ever.’ – Jose James

‘Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in ‘Rain Man’ as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.’ – Bonnie Hunt

‘The 2012 superstorm known as Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc beyond the Eastern Seaboard and reached Northeast Ohio as well, with heavy rain, wind gusts of nearly 70 miles per hour and waves on Lake Erie reaching 15 to 18 feet.’ – Marcia Fudge

‘I like to wear boots with skirts or mini-dresses, or jeans with sneakers and jumpers, leather jackets, or a rain coat.’ – Chiara Ferragni

‘I’m not the guy who does slo-mo, or I’m not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that’s not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I’m working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.’ – Duncan Jones

‘Yes, Brazil, like the whole world, stands to lose a lot in a climate-altered world. But it’s also one of the major forces determining our future: It’s the home of most of the Amazon rain forest.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘I don’t want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but ‘The Rain’ is hot.’ – Missy Elliott

‘I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone writers like Saul Bellow, I think of ‘Henderson the Rain King.’ With Don DeLillo, I think of ‘Libra.” – Ethan Canin

‘When I went for my medical school interview, I had an old paperback of ‘Henderson the Rain King’ in the pocket of my coat. I was wearing the best clothes I had – a pair of cords and a sport coat – but when I got to the office, all the other interviewees were lined up in their black suits.’ – Ethan Canin

‘Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.’ – Jeffrey Dean Morgan

”Singin’ in the Rain’ and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.’ – Debbie Reynolds

‘There is winter in L.A., there is rain in L.A. But there is no rain on ‘Entourage.” – Emily Ratajkowski

‘I never called him Prince because I wanted him to be a person to me, not the man behind ‘Purple Rain’. Plus, technically, I was married to the Symbol… When we got married, it was much easier. If someone else was there, I could say, ‘Could I speak to my husband, please?” – Mayte Garcia

‘I remember ‘Rain Man’ with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman with all the Lamborghinis being lifted off the tanker. I was obsessed with this car. Absolutely obsessed with this car. It was my dream, and to finally drive one and own one was incredible.’ – Ricky Whittle

‘I feel like Prince’s artistry inspired me as far as staying true to myself and my artistry and what is important to me in my life and applying, you know, all the things that I ever been through into my music, the same way he kinda did in ‘Purple Rain.” – Ro James

”Purple Rain’ is probably the best soundtrack.’ – Jonathan Levine

‘There weren’t a lot of ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ fans in my age group.’ – Jean Louisa Kelly

‘I want to produce the music to a movie that I’m working on, like what Prince did with ‘Purple Rain.” – The Weeknd

‘I am a small business owner; I’m in the agri-business. That’s about as blind a trust as you can get. We trust in the Lord for rain and many other things.’ – Sonny Perdue

‘The fact is that Common Core is no more responsible for a bizarre homework question than global warming is for a rain shower.’ – Sonny Perdue

‘An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world’s leading democracy.’ – Adam Cohen

‘When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.’ – Kapil Sibal

‘When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.’ – Jo Cox

‘The musicals that I loved, growing up – many, many. ‘Singing in the Rain,’ of course, is a classic, I love ‘Meet Me in St. Louis.’ I love ‘Funny Face,’ Stanley Donen’s beautiful movie. It’s really countless for me.’ – Rob Marshall

‘I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the ‘Purple Rain’ soundtrack – and many times since.’ – Betsy Hodges

‘I behave differently in different situations, and I’m slightly unstable and insecure, which I think are natural conditions of what I do. And I have a weird ear. Whatever I hear, I emulate. When I was a kid I did impressions: Forrest Gump, Rain Man, really big caricatures.’ – Max Minghella

‘I love the rain and everything about the monsoons!’ – Disha Patani

‘I watch ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it.’ – Rita Moreno

‘I don’t rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what – rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don’t make it to the playoffs for 10 years – the Garden stands are still full.’ – Fat Joe

‘We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We’re here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It’s insane.’ – Eduardo Bhatia

‘Lyrically, ‘Planets’ is the precursor to ‘Acid Rain’; it’s about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations.’ – Synyster Gates

‘If you hear on the weather report that it’s going to rain tomorrow, rather than reminding yourself to bring your umbrella, set the umbrella by the front door – now the environment is reminding you to bring the umbrella.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘Liverpool was a special city that took to me; I will always remember how special that place was. I obviously don’t miss the rain.’ – Fernando Torres

‘I am never up for rain sequences because nothing can beat the excitement and thrill of natural rain.’ – Erica Fernandes

‘I was born and raised on ‘Singin’ in the Rain.’ It’s in my work. It’s in me.’ – Zac Posen

‘Tell a woman it’s going to rain, and she’ll get out the umbrellas. Well, in the matter of money, there’s always the chance of rain ahead.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘When the price of oil goes up, the entire Texas economy takes a deep breath. Millionaires blossom like rain lilies. News races through the countryside that the money train is pulling into the station. Hop on board!’ – Lawrence Wright

‘Everyone thinks that Prince and I had a beautiful, romantic love affair, but we didn’t. We just let people think that in order to promote ‘Purple Rain.” – Apollonia Kotero

‘I can’t imagine voluntarily standing beside an F1 track in the rain, watching motorised wedges plastered in corporate decals zooming past at 500mph.’ – Charlie Brooker

‘The desperate hunger our president has for approbation has led him to such lengths as claiming that God stopped the rain during his Inauguration. In fact, Mother Nature made sure it rained on Trump’s hair the minute he started his speech.’ – Faith Salie

‘We mainly shot ‘Cartel Land’ with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain, and it never, ever failed.’ – Matthew Heineman

‘There’s something about two people coming together in the rain that is the ultimate expression of love in the minds of most audiences, I guess.’ – Julie Plec

‘I made the decision that I could either go outside in the freezing cold in the wind and rain and get muddy or just stay inside and be a rock star.’ – Shura

‘There’s this great panel – I forget what the actual comic is – of Spider-Man in the rain holding an umbrella and eating some Chinese takeout. It’s like, that’s the essence of ‘Spider-Man.” – Jon Watts

‘There have been moments when I was on a modeling job, and it was the most fantastic thing in the world. And there have been moments where I’ve realized, ‘Okay, I’m ten years old, and I’ve spent the past six hours outside in the rain.’ It taught me how to be specific about what kinds of projects I wanted to do and what kind of work I wanted to do.’ – Yara Shahidi

‘We shot ‘Mudbound’ in the South in the summer, which meant we were working in extreme heat and humidity at all times and that it could go from glaring sun to overcast skies to pouring rain in a matter of minutes, often shifting multiple times a day.’ – Rachel Morrison

‘For me, it’s about making art that’s not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn’t want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn’t think, ‘I wonder what the industry is gonna think about ‘Purple Rain.” It’s just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.’ – Lena Waithe

‘I own a company called Rain Industries.’ – Mohnish Pabrai

‘In 2007, Prince performed at the halftime of the Super Bowl. The stage in Miami was wreathed in purple light, and it poured during his performance, so that he played ‘Purple Rain’ in a purple rain.’ – Steve Rushin

‘I wanted people to know that I’ve been through the rain. I’ve been broken into pieces; I had a daughter at such a young age. There were times people would say, ‘That’s it for her.’ But that didn’t happen.’ – Fantasia Barrino

‘I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn’t see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.’ – Cornelia Parker

‘I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.’ – Kevin Young

‘In Italy, they say rain on your wedding day is symbolic of fresh beginnings, cleansing, a pure marriage, and also a wet knot that can’t be untied.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘Cyber attacks rain down on us from many places. You have to make your systems secure and safe and teach your people cyber hygiene.’ – Kersti Kaljulaid

‘I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.’ – Stephen McCauley

‘When I was a kid, I remember I used to hide under the bed sometimes because I didn’t want to go to practice. Even when I didn’t want to go to practice, it could be pouring rain outside, and I’d be like, ‘Yes, no practice today,’ and my mom would be there, and we were still going, and we’d have practice under the pavilion.’ – Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

‘Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.’ – Elizabeth Diller

‘I wouldn’t say that ‘Wowee Zowee’ was a success. We probably had a chance, had I focused a little more, to capitalize on the attention the band got for ‘Crooked Rain.” – Stephen Malkmus

‘I even like the Scottish weather because, like everywhere in the U.K., you can’t have great beauty without lots of rain.’ – Dominic Holland

‘Nothing looks as great on videotape as Hollywood after a rain.’ – Robin Leach

‘There are no military options for Iran. Attack them, and they will destroy the Gulf States oil industries, rain hundreds of missiles onto Israel, close the Arabian Gulf, and shoot oil prices to $300 per barrel, which could cause our own economic downfall.’ – Malcolm Nance

‘When I first got turned on to ‘Purple Rain,’ I was just moved by Prince’s charisma and his just being free. Everything meant something, from the scream to falling on the ground to taking his shirt off. It just all meant something.’ – Luke James

‘Believe it or not, it actually does rain in L.A. from time to time.’ – Janet Varney

‘It was a bit difficult in England at first with the weather and the rain, but I love the football culture in this country.’ – Sadio Mane

‘I’m just authentically, unapologetically myself. In and out of drag, in and out of the gig, in and out of the studio. My friends know. Miss Thing Over There wakes up 8 A.M. and she’s on. The sun, the rain, the snow, whatever’s going on outside, I’m ready.’ – Alyssa Edwards

‘Thank God I had football. I remember when it used to rain, all the kids would run outside and play football in the puddles, just splashing around, having the best time.’ – Raheem Sterling

‘I hate to rain on anyone’s parade or burst the enthusiasm bubble, but talk is especially cheap during an election season.’ – Meghan McCain

‘I saw ‘Purple Rain’ in the summer of ’84, and, ‘Spinal Tap’ notwithstanding, it’s the greatest rock & roll film of all time. There’s so much Prince coming at you that you have to remind yourself he’s also a breathtaking guitar player.’ – Tom Morello

”Purple Rain,’ the album, is a great guitar record.’ – Tom Morello

‘You reap what you sow, and sometimes the soil can be very dry, and sometimes it will bring a lot of rain.’ – Danielle Brooks

‘I often liken my love life to the pathetic fallacy found in a Bronte novel: a long and winding road tented by storm clouds and rain. Kidding.’ – Dan Levy

‘I like to see women getting drenched in the rain. So to that extent, I like ‘Barsaat.” – Ram Gopal Varma

‘After I finish with football, I will definitely go home. I won’t stay in England, but I like it here, and I’m happy I’m doing what’s best to give everything on the pitch, and then when I can, I relax. But the only bad thing is here maybe the rain is much more than in my country, but everything else I am happy with.’ – Edin Dzeko

‘I’ve starred in many melodramas, but the reason ‘Something in the Rain’ is so special to me is that I feel like I’m living in reality.’ – Son Ye-jin

‘I’m grateful for rain because, when I was kidnapped, that meant that I had something to drink.’ – Elizabeth Smart

‘A Mudboy is just somebody who came from nothing: you know, who turned nothing into something. You know, when I was in Africa, in the rain, I walk around in, like, mud, you know, the sand would turn to mud, and you are not getting out of that.’ – Sheck Wes

‘Having made a real 3D movie, you realize that, right from the production design, you’re designing sets that complement the 3D. You’re designing interactive elements, like rain or smoke – all this particulate matter in the air enhances the 3D. But if you’re shooting in 2D, you don’t know about that.’ – Paul W. S. Anderson

‘Nature made your eyebrows like that for a reason. I don’t know the reason. Some people say it’s to do with keeping rain out of monkeys’ eyes. Whatever. The point is, if you try to redesign your eyebrows with tweezers and pens, it will look terrible.’ – Victoria Coren Mitchell

‘There’s a scene in ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ where this guy dances with a giant doll while singing ‘Make ‘Em Laugh.’ I remember loving the pure physicality of it.’ – Ali Wong

‘I have ‘Purple Rain’ on purple vinyl.’ – Frank Iero

‘I see romance as a state of mind. I may find it in a candlelit dinner or by walking in the rain.’ – Radhika Pandit

‘I heard of the word ‘rainmaker.’ It means one particular star who could make a company or project rich and successful. Someone that makes it rain with money. I thought it was a really good concept, so I took over that idea to become the rainmaker.’ – Kazuchika Okada

‘It rarely rains in Hollywood – and I love the rain. There are ups and downs to anywhere in the world, but I get frustrated without any rain.’ – Danielle Campbell

‘People in Seattle – and I’m speaking from experience – are indoors more. It used to just rain a ton, and as a result, you’d be inside listening to music all the time and playing. You’d all rehearse at each other’s houses and share ideas. There was no competition. When I got to L.A., I was really stunned by the competition.’ – Duff McKagan

‘Dancing is never excruciating as preparing for it is. For instance, the song ‘Chamma Chamma’ had heavy outfits and even more heavy jewellery. ‘Kambakht Ishq’ was shot in extreme heat during the day and a rain sequence in the night, so we were literally drenched throughout the night.’ – Urmila Matondkar

‘The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say ‘rain,’ and it started raining, and then he would say ‘song,’ and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God’s lap.’ – Fahadh Faasil

‘I do cut my hair regularly because otherwise, after a few months, I wouldn’t be able to see the ball any more – especially when there’s a lot of rain.’ – Marouane Fellaini

‘My name is Rain Dove, and my pronouns are just a sound. You can use whatever you want.’ – Rain Dove

‘I did a tour down South someplace, and it was an all-day festival, and there were about 2,000 people. It was pouring down rain, and I went to grab the mic, and I got electrocuted. I felt the electricity flow through my body.’ – Charles Bradley

‘I’m that girl – I’ve never been camping; I don’t even go to festivals because I hate the cold and the rain. If it starts to rain, I’m the first one on the training field to go in and get a hat!’ – Alex Scott

‘The right way to enjoy ‘Heavy Rain’ is really to make one thing because it’s going to be your story. It’s going to be unique to you. It’s really the story you decided to write.’ – David Cage

”Heavy Rain’ was my baby, my reason to live, and my oxygen for four years. And seeing the successful release of the game has been the most extraordinary reward I could have dreamt of, after years of working in the dark.’ – David Cage

‘Some media used to talk about video games only to say how violent or addictive they could be. With ‘Heavy Rain,’ they talked about the story of the game and the emotions they felt while playing.’ – David Cage

‘We’re not going to just duplicate ‘Heavy Rain,’ because we are passionate about innovation and discovery, so we’re trying to discover new ground and see how we can move from ‘Heavy Rain’ and create something even more immersive.’ – David Cage

‘My goal is for ‘Heavy Rain’ to leave an imprint in you and change a little bit of who you are and how you see things. Maybe the key characters and key moments will leave a trace in you. If you don’t have this ambition as a video-game creator, then maybe you should do something else, because this is what creation and art is about.’ – David Cage

‘I think the difference between ‘Heavy Rain’ and ‘Beyond’ is that ‘Heavy Rain’ still had a lot of references to films. Especially in the mood, and it was a dark thriller… where, in ‘Beyond,’ we tried to create something truly original and doesn’t refer to anything.’ – David Cage

‘If you played ‘Heavy Rain,’ there are very few cutscenes and very few moments where you don’t have control.’ – David Cage

‘The concept of ‘Heavy Rain’ is to offer real-life situations with real characters. There are no supernatural elements in the story.’ – David Cage

”Indigo Prophecy’ already brought a lot of new features to the traditional adventure genre, including the Action system, MultiView, Bending Stories, etc. ‘Heavy Rain’ will include features like advanced physics and AI, realistic characters and living environments.’ – David Cage

‘I often say that buying ‘Heavy Rain’ is a political act.’ – David Cage

”Heavy Rain’ was really close to a dark thriller, like ‘Se7en.’ ‘Beyond’ is different in terms of tone.’ – David Cage

”Heavy Rain’ responded to a period of my life, things I strongly believed in, things I wanted to suggest or experiment with. I’m really happy with the overall feedback; the reception was a success.’ – David Cage

‘If ‘Heavy Rain’ is a huge commercial success, it will show everybody in the industry that the world is sick of first-person shooters, that people are ready for an adult gaming experience. If we fail, it will say, ‘Please keep making the same old stuff.” – David Cage

‘On ‘Heavy Rain,’ the game started with something that happened to me when I lost my son, my six-year-old boy, in a mall. I was so scared. I was curious to see if I could create that impression, that fear, in a game, an interactive experience.’ – David Cage

”Heavy Rain’ is really ‘Fahrenheit’ with more experience, more maturity, and probably a better vision and understanding of how this type of experience can be created.’ – David Cage

‘We called ‘Heavy Rain’ an interactive drama, for whatever that’s worth.’ – David Cage

”Heavy Rain’ is a cousin of the ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books.’ – David Cage

‘With ‘Heavy Rain,’ we’re creating something that changes many traditional game paradigms.’ – David Cage

‘I don’t pretend that ‘Heavy Rain’ will be a revolution, and I don’t know if people will love it or hate it. All I can say is that it is definitely going to be different.’ – David Cage

‘When rain is around, the team batting second gets a huge advantage.’ – Shahid Afridi

‘My favorite weather pattern happens to be when it rains mud. Dust comes through. Rain on top of it. It rains mud.’ – Mike Leach

‘Everybody’s going to play in tough-weather games – snow, rain, sleet – but you’ve got to hold onto the football.’ – Peyton Hillis

‘Third and 10 down by four at Lambeau Field in the drizzling rain… two minutes left. There’s nothing like that.’ – Steve Young

‘I like ‘I Can’t Stand the Rain.’ I like it because it has a really oriental feeling to it, an ‘oriental taste,’ it has an essence of Asia.’ – Lee Tae-min

‘For me, my mentor was Rain who I like and admire so much. To be able to appear in the same place with him as a mentor to someone is meaningful and such an honor.’ – Lee Tae-min

‘Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.’ – M. S. Swaminathan

‘Look, some days, you have to film a sequence in which the rain is pounding down on someone and you’re just turning the camera on what’s happening. And other days, you occasionally have to spray Robert Pattinson in the face with a firehose.’ – Robert Eggers

‘If I decide to leave Bayern Munich, it will be for a Spanish club. I have to think about what my family wants as well and my wife would be delighted to move to Spain. She doesn’t like all the rain and snow and is reluctant to go to England.’ – Franck Ribery

‘I actually was there down in Florida when Prince did ‘Purple Rain’ in the rain. He was out there with the guitar goin’. It was absolutely awesome.’ – Joe Mauer

‘It’s true that you can’t take an individual rain droplet and say where it’s come from or where it’s going to end up. But you can say with pretty good certainty whether it will be cloudy tomorrow.’ – Hannah Fry

‘The sorriest thing I had ever seen was a sheered sheep after he had been in the rain.’ – Bud Luckey

‘To me I grew up watching ‘All That Jazz’ and ‘Cabaret,’ and when I was younger ‘Mary Poppins’,’ The Sound Of Music,’ and ‘Singin’ In The Rain.” – Michael Gracey

‘I would love to live in Dorset or Devon and swim in the sea every day come rain or shine.’ – Lady Amelia Windsor

‘We lived in a ‘kuccha’ house made of mud. The thatched roof couldn’t stop the water trickles during the rainy season. I, along with my brothers and sisters, used to stand in a corner and wait for the rain to stop.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N’ Roses’ ‘November Rain.” – Chad Gilbert

‘I love Manchester. It’s a super-cool city and its famous rain is part of the charm.’ – Gino D’Acampo

‘I loved ‘Rain’ and its take on the Beatles. The way they used a timeline and news reel to create a mood, and crafted set changes throughout, it was stunning.’ – Jason Bonham

‘So when I was a kid in Guyana, I would run barefoot in the street and bathe in the rain. That was a real thing. Picture that, showers falling from the sky in the middle of the Caribbean.’ – Saint Jhn

‘Unfortunately, there tends to be an easy way of doing things in life and the Haskell way. As a 12-year-old I knocked my front teeth out while chasing a friend in the rain. I’m the type who offers to serve wine at drinks parties and accidentally pours it down one of the guests.’ – James Haskell

‘MPs are only elected thanks to the help of ordinary members – activists on the ground who traipse the streets, post leaflets and engage in millions of doorstep conversations, come rain or shine and without pay.’ – Grant Shapps

‘Portland is a permanent road course built in a beautiful state, which is for me a fantastic area for many reasons. The downside is that the weather is so unpredictable that it’s not uncommon to start the race on the dry and end with the rain as it happened to me in 1996 when I won my first Champ Car race.’ – Alex Zanardi

‘I was fascinated by the powerful yet precise dance performances of K-pop. I loved Rain and 2NE1.’ – Momo Hirai

‘My mental analogy for TalkTalk is an ageing Ford Cortina going flat out in the fast lane of the M4 in the pouring rain. We are always hammering along faster than anybody thinks is sensible, with things not quite working, but huge enthusiasm.’ – Dido Harding

‘I saw Rain dance on TV and decided that I wanted to sing and dance like him.’ – Jeongyeon

‘I always keep a hoodie on me at all times ’cause you never know when it’s gonna rain, you never know when it’s gonna get a little cold at night. So, you always got to keep a hoodie. And I always keep like a earth tone hoodie ’cause it always goes with your outfit no matter what you have on.’ – Cordae

‘The final scenes in ‘Rain’ are just like my mother-in-law when she would sit under the window in my sitting room – one foot in the other world and just holding on.’ – Penny Johnson Jerald

‘I like that kind of weather. Constant drizzle. At the Olympic trials in 2012, my mom was, like, ‘It’s pouring rain out there, Mary. You shouldn’t even notice it. You’re Irish.” – Mary Cain

‘Qawaali is the art, that’s in my soul. It’s the ground. Everything else is a passing season – wind, rain, sunshine.’ – Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

‘A big moment for me came when ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ came out. It hit me like a sledgehammer – that’s what I wanted to do.’ – Denis Lawson

‘The rich have lots of money. The wealthy have lots of time. I’ve done enough to have lots of time today to watch sunrises and get drenched in the rain.’ – Victor Banerjee

‘I have vivid memories of leaving North Borneo at 8, and I remember the vast canopy of rain forest.’ – Clare Rewcastle Brown

‘No Rain, No Flowers’ is an inside look into my journey of healing and growth.’ – Sabrina Claudio

‘Call me old fashioned, but we’re now holding umbrellas up as our players get off a plane. Do they need that? It’s a few spots of rain. OK, they might get wet. Well, let them get wet. That’s what happens when it rains.’ – Steve Bruce

‘Jis Din Tum’ is such a beautiful song to hear. When I came to know that we were going to shoot it in the rain, it was so exciting!’ – Vatsal Sheth

‘I have a very good relation with rain. When I was born in Orissa, there were severe floods. Even now it rains on my birthday.’ – Varun Sandesh

”Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain’ is a film seen through my eyes. I play a labourer.’ – Rajpal Yadav

‘Like any offensive lineman worth his shoulder pads, I’m a mudder. Football’s just not football without a healthy dose of slipping, sliding, snow, or rain.’ – Mark Schlereth

‘If a guy took his top off and rain poured down on him, everyone would be like, ‘Woo!’ but if you’re a woman you can’t do stuff like that. Well, why can’t you?’ – Perrie Edwards

‘The second time I was pregnant friends would give me rubber bands to gnaw, because the first time, I had chewed things like a rubber bit that fell off the dishwasher. I remember driving once in the rain and the smell of my rubber-soled shoes in the damp caused me to pull over and start chomping on the rubber mat.’ – Zoe Ball

‘What don’t I miss about tennis? Oh man, the road, the airports, the rain delays, the scheduling, the knots in your stomach, not being able to eat. Things like that.’ – Mardy Fish

‘I’ve spent 35 years sitting on a motorbike in the rain. It’s not had too good an effect on my bones.’ – Dave Myers

‘There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and then dump you half a mile away in the freezing wind and rain.’ – Giles Coren

‘My ma wanted to go and have a wee look at where all the Scottish kings had been buried. So we traipsed over Mull, in the pishing rain, with the parents desperately trying to find things to do as is the case with a holiday in Scotland, then on to Iona.’ – Douglas Henshall

‘Climate change is real, and we need to work on a comprehensive approach. We eliminated sulfur dioxide in the air, and got rid of acid rain. We got rid of lead in gasoline. You can achieve these things when the private and public sectors work together.’ – John Fetterman

‘Los Angeles has got its own distinct feel, and it’s very contrary to the music that I write and the pictures I see in my head: no evergreens, no fog, no rain days.’ – Alison Sudol

‘My dad always said, ‘There’s only a few great ones,’ and Prince was definitely one of the greats. Then ‘Purple Rain’ took on new meaning when I had broken up with my ex and I did a show in his hometown and sang it. It was just a really crazy moment, and that’s always a memory when I’m singing it as well.’ – Adore Delano

‘Come rain or shine you look out onto your garden every single day, so it’s important and uplifting to have it done properly.’ – A. J. Odudu

‘It was the mid-80s and we were on the verge of making it big all over the world, having just released Sparkle in the Rain. However, as with many U.K. bands, the U.S. was proving tough to crack.’ – Jim Kerr

‘When the sun is shining, enjoy the sun; when the rain is raining, dance in the rain – you’re going to get wet anyway. And if you slip and injure your back, at least you get some time to relax in hospital.’ – Lou Sanders

‘I always say ‘Purple Rain’ is the album I wish I wrote. It’s perfectly crafted. I love the use of Linn drums, which definitely shaped my idea of what drums should sound like. Every track on the album is different, but it all fits together.’ – Peaches

‘We should be used to the unpredictable nature of our weather system, the fact that low fronts and high pressure and the notion of sun, rain and snow in one day mean absolutely nothing because the weather likes to make an eejit out of you. It lulls you into a false sense of security, it messes with your head.’ – Angela Scanlon

‘You can’t lay bricks in the snow or rain. We still use wet plaster on walls which might not dry for a week if it’s frosty. The way we build houses today is unbelievably inefficient. Ridiculously inefficient. Gas technology has moved on, but building is still in the dark ages. We still build houses the way the Romans did.’ – George Clarke

‘In Germany, I was always the best, everybody loved me and then they think: ‘OK, he comes to England, now he can do it again.’ It was just not easy for me. But as a person and a player, I grew very much during that period and, after the rain, comes always the sun.’ – Kai Havertz

‘It’s tougher, obviously, to kick in the wind and the rain.’ – Morten Andersen

‘I love walking along the coastal paths. I’m used to the rain but I hate the cold.’ – Tara Fitzgerald

‘About two months after I’d finished filming ‘The Beach’ in Thailand, I found myself on a roof in Croydon at 2:00 A.M. in the rain with one spotlight on me, a student director and her technician trying to film me as an angel who’d fallen from the sky. Then the lights went out. And I thought, ‘Yeah, you’re back.” – Paterson Joseph