Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind. – Dave Beard Category: Weather
There was an edge to this darkness…. A cold wind was blowing out of the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. – George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996 Category: Weather
[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866 Category: Weather
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. – Richard Armour Category: Triviality, Pettiness
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. – Doug Larson Category: Graduation
When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything. – Nikita Khrushchev Category: Capitalism