Quotes about sky
sky earth rage-from-the-iliad
Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth. Homer
sky sun fusion
We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day. Elon Musk
sky horizon shells
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles. Evelyn Waugh
sky green cheese
Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky. Italo Calvino
sky clarity mood
My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky. Glenn Gould
sky dancing laughing
He was dancing to some music No one else had ever heard He'd speak in unknown languages She would translate every word And then when the world was laughing At his castles in the sky She'd hold him in her body Till he once again could fly. Harry Chapin
sky top-down people
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. Grandma Moses
sky mouths bigger
The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well. Mao Zedong
sky tree pages
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. Jonathan Lethem
sky collaboration stories
Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky. Justine Larbalestier
sky seattle
The bluest skies . . . are in Seattle. Perry Como
sky use doe
What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all. Piet Mondrian
sky creating space
I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions. Philippe Petit
sky perfection long
The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.
sky different looks
We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies. Paulo Coelho
sky jumping knows
When you're jumping so high for something so far up in the sky, you have to know that there is definitely someone there who can catch you, someone who knows how to catch you and when. Picabo Street
sky clouds earth
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
sky cocoons caterpillars
All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky. Jim Rohn
sky white imagination
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared. George Leigh Mallory
sky anxiety doubt
I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them... John Constable
sky light source
The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.
sky class names
It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.
sky clouds bird
You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly. Lewis Carroll
sky movement hey
Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now its nascent. Peter Brimelow
sky sun world
So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky. Philip Pullman
sky tree soil
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. Rabindranath Tagore
sky sea doe
Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?" "They do." "And why do you?" "The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr. Maggie Stiefvater
sky bird soul
Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world. Haruki Murakami
sky coats castles
Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
sky cloudy-skies cloudy
I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky
sky sea desire
I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher. Gilbert K. Chesterton
sky clouds people
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.
sky lasts crumbling
…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky John Dryden