Eighteen Quote by Vincent Starrett

“The panes streamed with rain, and the short street he looked down into lay wet and empty, as if swept clear suddenly by a…

— Joseph Conrad

“Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet how remote…

— Vincent Starrett

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

— Neil Gaiman

About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days,…

— Joshua Slocum

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust…

— Anonymous

“The soft humidity of the evening, so pleasant to walk about in earlier, had turned to rain. The strolling tourists had melted away. One…

— Daphne du Maurier

... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard…

— Frederick Buechner

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks…

— Michael Leunig

“It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the…

— Mary Shelley

“I remember the rain, the lightning across the sky and the thunder that followed, pounding against the glass windows of the inn. The smell…

— K.S. Villoso

This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the…

— Ted Hughes

Regard this fleeting world like this: Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast-moving stream, like morning dewdrops evaporating on…

— Gautama Buddha