Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Kleypas

I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!

James Joyce

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

Friedrich Schiller

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

The equity market has quite a considerable number of dark clouds hovering over it.

The impact of pollution on these clouds is sufficiently strong to completely shut off precipitation from them.

Jacob Zuma

There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

Henry David Thoreau

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Todd Howard

All we saw was a cloud of smoke.

The effect of dust on cloud properties is to inhibit precipitation,

The first thing is to linger on cloud nine for a while.

Mike Melvill

The flight was spectacular. Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

John Brown

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

Harmon Killebrew

It's a mess whichever way you look at it. There would normally be big hoopla, I'm sure. The commissioner would make a big deal out of it. I just hate to see this cloud over the game.

Rajneesh

In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is the only difference, but the difference that makes the difference. One is fully alert, luminous. One is there witnessing, watching, but there is no cloud of thought. The sky is utterly empty: as far as you can see you cannot see any content.

Stephen King

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

Stephenie Meyer

and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.

Thomas Hardy

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

Thomas Love Peacock

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

Richard P. Feynman

What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt

Roz Savage

When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.

Roland Barthes

Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of words, but the meaning of things themselves. This is why it clouds the language, increases as much as it can the abstractness of the concept and the arbitrariness of the sign and stretches to the limit the link between signifier and signified.

Satya Nadella

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

Wallace Stevens

Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.

Washington Irving

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Wislawa Szymborska

I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.

William E. Gladstone

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.

Wendell Berry

Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

William Blake

Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

Werner Herzog

Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?

Russell Simmons

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step.” This may be because he was ordered to speak circumspectly. According to science writer Nigel Calder, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director of the CERN lab, told a German newspaper that “I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.