Pastoral Resources

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Folks, this is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.

So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.

It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.

When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.