hurricane quotes

Irish hurricane, a flat calm with drizzling rain.

- Frank Charles Bowen
  Sea Slang, a Dictionary of the Old-Timers' Expressions and Epithets.

A woman rang to say she heard there was a hurricane on the way.Well don't worry, there isn't.

- Michael Fish
   Television weather forecast prior to severe gales in southern England,15 Oct.

Que se rompa el andamio de los huesos Que se derrumben las vigas del cerebro Yarrastre el huraca  n los trozos a la nada al otro lado En donde el viento azota a Dios Smash the scaffold of the bones Pull down the rafters of the brain Let the hurricane drag the pieces to the nothing on the other side Where the wind thrashes God

-Vicente Huidobro
Altazor o el viaje en paraca|  das, canto1 (translated as Altazor, or,  A Voyage in a Parachute,1988).

Who hath desired the Sea?the sight of salt water unbounded The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded? The sleek-barrelled swell before storm, grey, foamless, enormous, and growing Stark calm on the lap of the Line or the crazy-eyed Hurricane blowing.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Sea and the Hills'.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestantswho live inthe center, inthe serene eye of the big wind.

- Norman Kingsley Mailer
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