Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Steve Ballmer

Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.

Richard Brautigan

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Tiffany Shlain

We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them,

Thomas Brooks

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

Thomas Brooks

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

Thomas Brooks

A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.

Victor Hugo

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke." Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Algebra applies to the clouds.

Robert Frost

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

Rita Dove

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

Thomas Otway

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

Steve Wozniak

With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away

Steve Wozniak

I really worry about everything going to the cloud,

Robert Browning

It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched;