J. D. Salinger Quotes

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

Among all of our uncertainties weather is the most basic. We can’t live without it and we can’t control it.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

I cannot command winds and weather.

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

The climate informs the character.

It’s very hard to predict the weather. Predicting human affairs is very difficult.

Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.

In Finland and the U.K. you can't predict the weather.

I can be very moody.

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.

Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

In the sun I feel as one.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row-I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours-eight big hours outside my home- was unfeasible.

Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer.