KNMI - Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute. The section of the site in English gives an overview of the research programmes.
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Weather Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Weather
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Weather We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Weather
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Weather If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Weather
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Weather There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Weather Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Weather
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Weather "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Weather
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Weather Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Weather
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Weather Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Weather
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Weather There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Weather
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Weather "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Weather
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Weather Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Weather
