Tropical Storm Force

Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or force:

    “We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
    —Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

    “I know my lazy, leaden twang
    Is like the reason in a storm;
    And yet it brings the storm to bear.
    I twang it out and leave it there.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)