Tropical Storm Frankie

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

    Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
    Their life a general mist of error,
    Their death a hideous storm of terror.
    John Webster (c. 1580–1638)

    Frankie threw back her kimono, she took out her forty-four.
    Root-a-toot-toot, three times she shot, right through that hardwood
    door.
    —Unknown. Frankie and Johnny (l. 25–27)