Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Palahniuk

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

Angelina Jolie

The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab

Alice Meynell

The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.

What we try to look for is more the trend than the exception. There is a lot of liquidity in the market, and the economy is well on its way. It's difficult to see too many clouds on the horizon at the moment.

What we see strongly suggests that the magnetic field is indeed helical. If it is so, then this tells us a lot about the role magnetic fields might play in molecular clouds and star formation. It would be a major piece of evidence in trying to solve this mystery of how stars form.

Dave Grohl

A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

Cyrano de Bergerac

I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air.

Colum McCann

One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.

Darren Criss

I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine... more like cloud ten... cloud nine was old news.

He just wanted this thing to end. He just wanted to take his young men out on that court and perform without that cloud over their head.

Mark Morris

Here we're talking about some galactic scale event that takes an already very massive cloud and just crushes it into extremely high densities forming, in one fell swoop, hundreds and hundreds of stars, most of which are far more massive than our own sun.

Joe Girardi

He said 'I think I need to come and play.' I respect that. I'm sure he's on cloud nine.

Jerome Bettis

I think it's been my work ethic. I've just been a hard worker, a guy that's always trying to be positive and put a positive swing on things sometimes even in the darkest moments. And I think people can relate to that being a blue-collar guy. My game is a blue-collar game. Three yards and a cloud of dust and get up and do it again. That's the way in the Midwest, especially Detroit, which is a very, very blue-collar town. I think people relate to that, as well as Pittsburgh.

Daniel Johnston

There is good news in sight but there are some dark clouds on the horizon,

We're on Cloud 9. This has probably been the (team's) greatest 24-hour period since 1984.

We're obviously completely embarrassed and unhappy. To come in here and lose, 7-0, is a total embarrassment. There's no reason we should lose to any team by seven goals. We'd better get our heads out of the clouds and play the way we know how.

Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.

He was in cloud cuckoo land for the remainder of the game - which included his hat-trick try.

I wouldn't say the sun is shining on them yet, but the clouds are parting. I see a lot of opportunity.

Fiona Apple

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream, you got your head in the clouds you're not at all what you seem.

The real thing this is highlighting is how severely the market is trading under a cloud of fear, ... People are really, truly scared.

This settlement removes the largest cloud overhanging the company.

We were expecting sales to remain in record territory today, not set new records, ... This really underscores the silver lining to clouds abroad.

Bob James

We were excited when we were told and we hoped it wasn't another piece of the rumor mill. No one's been happy with the big cloud of doubt hanging over the resort and rumors flying around.

We want to understand clouds on a microscopic scale so we can determine the impact on a massive scale.

Every time it gives you hope, a big old nasty cloud rolls over you and hails on you in April. It dumped 40 gallons on our field, so we switched it over to North and then 20 minutes later it drops 40 gallons over there.

Charles Spurgeon

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

With oil on the rise, we're in danger of a dark cloud moving over the market in the near term.

We like the West Coast offense. We like to throw it around. Today, they made us play three yards and a cloud of dust.

We have good optimism out there and that's always the time to think about what dark clouds are out there.

The recent stock price fluctuations remind us of the old days (pre-1999) when Qualcomm's earnings outlook was cloudy and the stock traded more on speculation than fact.

Unanswered prayers of lowly birth/On wings of folly round the earth/Illusion clouds the eyes that raise/To the emerald gods they praise.

William Shakespeare

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?