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Quotes About Downpour

Tut-tut, it looks like rain
~ A.A. Milne
The sky is PISSIN' DOWN RAIN.
~ Quentin Tarantino
The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains.
~ Ray Bradbury
It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains. It came by the pound and the ton, it hacked at the jungle and cut the trees like scissors and shaved the grass and tunneled the soil and molted the bushes. It shrank men's hands into the hands of wrinkled apes; it rained a solid glassy rain, and it never stopped.
~ Ray Bradbury
When revival comes to the human heart, it's a torrent, it's a cascade, it's a deluge. It's a downpour!
~ James MacDonald
Stanley wasn't a good downpour. Nothing wrong with a good downpour for clearing the air. Stanley was the sort of thing you needed a good downpour to clear the air of. Stanley was muggy, close, and oppressive, like someone large and sweaty pressed up against you in a tube train. Stanley didn't rain, but every so often he dribbled on you. Dirk
~ Douglas Adams
The rain came down in buckets." [I know, I know, but I was only 13.]
~ Randy Chandler
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.
~ Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
named after the distinctively orange-flowered grove of palash trees which overlooked it. It was here, at Plassey, in the dark, about 1 a.m., that Clive took shelter from a pre-monsoon downpour.
~ William Dalrymple
ce jour-là, il pleuvait démesurément. On ne voyait rien, si ben qu'on aurait pur être partout ailleurs.
~ David Foenkinos
The deluge began.
~ Alexander Frater
Her family as well as others had been the recipient of prime cuts of venison that mysteriously appeared in their larders. She laughed at the memory of Fynn's face when she had caught him in her larder during a downpour when no one in their right mind would have been abroad.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Aboveground it rained all the time. He had never seen so much rain. It did not come in thunderstorms, or sudden cloudbursts, to be followed by the relief of clear skies and dry weather. Rather, it was a soft drizzle that drifted down all day, sometimes all week, creeping up the legs of his trousers and down the back of his shirt.
~ Ken Follett
Outside—and, in one or two places, inside—the rain fell in torrents.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Enoch Emery had borrowed his landlady's umbrella and he discovered as he stood in the entrance of the drugstore, trying to open it, that it was at least as old as she was. When he finally got it hoisted, he pushed his dark glasses back on his eyes and re-entered the downpour.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Maria was a weather witch and could stop rain by standing in a downpour with her arms uplifted.
~ Alice Hoffman
She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
~ E. Lockhart
It's rainin' like Billy-be-damned out there.
~ Sam Torode
The life of an editor may seem all glam all the time, but there's nothing like schlepping through the city during a torrential downpour to put things in perspective.
~ Elaine Welteroth
Even the slightest trace of piety in us ought to make us feel that a God who cures a headcold at the right moment or tells us to get into a coach just as a downpour is about to start is so absurd a God he would have to be abolished even if he existed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Take an umbrella, it's raining.
~ John Patrick
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7
~ John Sandford
rolled the door shut, and then it really began to rain.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner