Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mitchell

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

David Mitchell

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

William Shakespeare

Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

Sathya Baba

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

Helen Sharman

During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn't see outside, but as soon as that was jettisoned, my first view of the earth was over the Pacific Ocean, which was this wonderful deep blue, with clouds just over the top, and sunlight streaming in through the window.

Edward Gibbon

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.

Denise Levertov

I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.

Bernard Hopkins

Tavoris Cloud might actually be hungrier than me. How often do you hear a fighter say that his opponent is hungrier than he is? I don't need hunger. I'm motivated by my desire to prove that I'm different and that I can still silence the critics.

Whenever we see clouds at all, whenever we see any rain, there tends to be a decrease in the use. People feel better about life, I guess, when it's rainy or cloudy, in terms of the life of their plants.

Charlotte Bronte

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

William Shakespeare

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

William Shakespeare

Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.

Benoit Mandelbrot

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale

Charles Wesley

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

Charles Lindbergh

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

Bob Woodward

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Steve Bartlett

We're more party Badger fans than football Badger fans. They play exciting football, but we just wanted to get away from the clouds and the snow and the cold.

William Shakespeare

How is it that the clouds still hang on you?

Carl Sandburg

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

Bud Selig

We've studied weather, winds, we've studied humidity. There isn't a cloud within 800 miles of here. In Milwaukee, you don't get a day like this until July Fourth.

Therese of Lisieux

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.

Aristophanes

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

Eckhart Tolle

Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

Demosthenes

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

Edvard Grieg

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

There are many clouds on the horizon. The situation is very foggy and difficult to read.

Elizabeth Taylor

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

Bruce Sterling

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel, And lap me in delight.

Thornton Wilder

Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignorance, to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those-- of those about you, to spend and waste time as if you had a million years, to be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another. Now you know, that's the 'happy' existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.

Giant pandas are easy compared to clouded leopards.

I think they had to do what they had to do, but it kind of clouds things.

Paul Johnson

I think there's a couple of reasons: One, I don't think they understand it. I think they see it and hear 'option' and think that's 3 yards and a cloud of dust, which couldn't be further from the truth.