Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

The big cloud on the horizon has been the Department of Justice lawsuit,

The big fear, and the cloud that is overhanging the market is inflation. Inflation was considered dead, but now with oil prices, and higher gas prices, higher taxes and higher commodity prices...all of this with higher activity, eventually it's got to show up.

William Shakespeare

That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.

It spreads around the Earth as a rock vapor cloud that eventually condenses and forms droplets that solidify into spherules, which rain back down onto the surface.

Considering the cloudy winter we have had, I would say those numbers are excellent.

It's expensive, but it's important for them to get over this and get on with their business. It will lift a cloud on the company, but not for Hank.

It's a resolution of a long-simmering cloud that'd been hanging over this company. Though it's painful, the resolution could have been worse. It's good news that it's resolved.

It was cold and cloudy and as the day went on it got nicer. I thought our running event marks got better as the day went on.

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.

Benjamin Crump

It shouldn't be taking this long. There is a cloud of suspicion over everything.

Champ Bailey

It's great. I'll look back on it after the season and I'll think about it. But we're still playing football and I try not to dwell on it because it kind of clouds your vision for the week ahead.

Everybody is on cloud nine right now. I think we played a great game.

Lewis Black

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

It's obvious he's exploiting his job as a prosecutor for private gain. It has clouded his view of justice.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Look for the Sunlight through the Clouds.

Jeremy Clarkson

Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

Evgeny Morozov

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

Hugh Blair

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

Giancarlo Esposito

It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.

Gena Showalter

I would have been here sooner but Lysander held me prisoner in our cloud," Bianka said with a grin. "He wouldn't relent until Sabin gave the ok. Which I still don't understand and will continue to punish him for until he spills. Secrets or guts, I don't care which.

Gary Larson

What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?

Chris Howard

Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenon are spawning divergent strategies for cloud computing success. The public cloud, hybrid clouds, and private clouds now dot the landscape of IT based solutions. Because of that, the basic issues have moved from 'what is cloud' to 'how will cloud projects evolve'.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.

George W. Bush

There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

George Steiner

The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry.

Francis Chan

We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.

So, more clouds and more rain sometime toward the end of (this) week.

William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils.

Daniel Smith

I'm on cloud nine. It's amazing. (The 100 backstroke) has been my key race all year. I just thought back to times when I exceeded my expectations and tried to do the same thing.

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

John McLaughlin

People still say they want him to succeed. They want him to do well. There is a reservoir of goodwill for him. What the other side is doing, they're just trying to cloud his objectives.

John Szarkowski

People don't think of landscapes as moving, but they do. The light changes, the clouds move, and that's what Adams' photography is really about -- about the fact that nature is not permanent.