1997-98 South-west Indian Ocean Cyclone Season

Famous quotes containing the words south-west, indian, ocean and/or season:

    “The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    “Neither doctor, lawyer or Indian chief could love you any more than I do.”
    —Paul Francis Webster (1907–1984)

    “The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences. Serpents, bears, hyenas, tigers rapidly vanish as civilization advances, but the most populous and civilized city cannot scare a shark far from its wharves.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.”
    —Fred Rogers (20th century)