Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

I get depressed when the sun is clouded over. It affects me.

Walter Benjamin

I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.

Barry Ritholtz

The only dark cloud to this number is that now the Fed has no reason whatsoever to stop raising rates.

Today we can't even tell how much of a cloud is making precipitation.

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

John Milton

Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.

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Channing Tatum

With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.

We don't have time to think about last season. They're good now. We can't cloud our guys' minds too much with last season. We have to play well because Ohio is good this season.

We are seeing dark clouds on the horizon because of slowing housing markets. The inverted yield curve could be a sign of a slowdown in the economy. Treasuries yields are unlikely to rise.

Thomas Friedman

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

Adam Lambert

I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.

We're excited to be in the tournament and really excited to be in the east. We tried to be as patient as we could for 30-something hours and we had a good feeling we'd be in once St. Cloud lost to North Dakota.

Aberjhani

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

A. J. Jacobs

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

A. S. Byatt

Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.

Aeschylus

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

Pessimism - Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.

Stephan Pastis

I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour, ... I took a picture with him. He looked at some of the strips that I had been doing and gave me some tips. Man, I was on cloud nine.

May the friendships you make be those which endure and all of your grey clouds be small ones for sure. And trusting in Him to Whom we all pray, may a song fill your heart every step of the way.

Giant pandas are easy compared to clouded leopards.

I do not see any dark clouds on the horizon for Microsoft. I think it's straight shooting, straight up.

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.

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.

Annie Leibovitz

When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears.

Daniel Defoe

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

Don King

You can see the clouds rolling in and thunder is imminent.

Clive Barker

The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.