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There are a variety of recursive stories based on the quote where one character tells another character a story, which itself begins with the same opening line. An example would be "It was a dark and stormy night and the Captain said to the mate, Tell us a story mate, and this is the story.
The phrase does not appear in Shaw's original play Pygmalion, on which My Fair Lady is based, but it is used in the 1938 film of the play.According to The Disciple and His Devil, the biography of Gabriel Pascal by his wife Valerie, it was he who introduced the famous phonetic exercises "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" and "In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ...
"Rainy Day", a song by The Rascals, the B-side to the single "A Beautiful Morning" "Rainy Day", a song by 10,000 Maniacs from their 1997 album Love Among the Ruins "Rainy Day," a song by Janel Parrish from the 2007 film Bratz
"Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in ...
Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877. Art Institute of Chicago. Gustave Caillebotte, Le Pont de l'Europe, oil on canvas, 1876. Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva. While Baudelaire characterized the flâneur as a "gentleman stroller of city streets", [20] he saw him as having a key role in understanding, participating in, and portraying the city.
A Rainy Day may refer to: A Rainy Day with the Bear Family or A Rainy Day, an American animated short A Rainy Day (2014 film) , an Indian Marathi language film
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is the Oxford University Press's large quotation dictionary. It lists short quotations that are common in English language and culture. The 8th edition, with 20,000 quotations over 1126 pages, was published in print and online versions in 2014. [1] The first edition was published in 1941.
Scott Momaday's mother was Mayme 'Natachee' Scott Momaday (1913–1996), who Momaday stated was to be of English, Irish, French, and "some degree of Cherokee" descent, [7] [8] [9] born in Fairview, Kentucky, [10] while his father was Alfred Morris Momaday, who was a full-blooded Kiowa. [11]