There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligenceor even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them. - Arthur C Clarke If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random. - Donald Rumsfeld Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same. - Rupert Sheldrake

In the rainy season, back home, when the land had given way to water and the buffaloes grew webbed feet, when the hens took to the roofs, when marooned goats teetered on minuscule islands, when the women splashed across on the raised walkway to the cooking hut and found they could no longer kindle a dung-and-husk fire and looked to their reserves, when the rain rang louder than cow bells, rice was the means, the giver of life. - Monica Ali In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge. - Haile Gebrselassie The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language." Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my though...

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. on rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past. - Nicole Krauss Like the song says, rainy days and Mondays always get ya down . - Haruki Murakami I wonder what ants do on rainy days? - Haruki Murakami Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. - William Feather The rainy days in life are what make us treasure the sunny days. - Suzannah Daniels A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee. These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days. - R M Engelhardt Don't like small talk, love rainy days. - Melissa Gilbert A visitor to campus can find sweet, aromatic Properity, as well as Climbing Ophelia and those delicious Egyptian Roses, which give off the scent of cloves on rainy days, ensuring that a gardener's hands will...

Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai - Gosho Aoyama Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape. - Ally Condie Our time together feels like a storm, like wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape. It blows around me and it tangles my hair, leaves wate on my face, makes me know that I am alive, alive, alive. - Ally Condie Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am. - Michael Cunningham She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him with eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face, her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the ...

I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade. - Jodi Picoult It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain. - Haruki Murakami Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees? - Daphne Du Maurier

I caught his drift, but I wasn't going to argue for a single second. Just get me to the Hampshire House, that's all I cared about. Besides, how could I say, "No, I'm not a prositute. I'm Mrs. Frank Sinatra out for an early morning walk in the rain"? - Ava Gardner Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. - Roger Miller

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead. - Stephen King I am so in love with you," I told him. He smiled graciously and pressed his nose and cheek to mine with a hand on my jaw. "I'm so in love with you." "I know," I said happily and smiled through the rain on my cheeks. - Shelly Crane The soldiers stomp stomp stomp through the rain, crushing leaves and fallen snow under their feet. Their hands are wrapped in gloves wrapped around guns that could put a bullet through a million possibilities. - Tahereh Mafi A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon the fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, And ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet. Here though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen ninety-five. - Vincent Starrett I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your...