"On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things."

-- Tom Robbins

#Rain Quotes #Fall Quotes #Essence Quotes

“Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.”
“A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.”
“I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.”
“Books in your head help no one.”
“I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.”

Source : Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”
“"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.”
“Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.”
“LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.”

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