Clouds Quotes - Page 29

• The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.

  Joaquin Miller

  Butterfly, Snow, Gold

  Joaquin Miller (1873). “Songs of the Sun-lands”, p.66

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• After what seemed like an eternity, we finally reached the summit just as the sun was rising. I couldn't believe that we had actually done it. We were standing at the highest point in all of Africa, looking down at the clouds below us, with the sun directly in front of us, its rays welcoming us to the beginning of a new day. It didn't seem like this was something that humans were meant to experience, yet here we were

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Believe, New Day

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky

  John Betjeman

  Flower, Silver Bells, Sky

  John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.82, A&C Black

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• You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.

  Conor McGregor

  Mma, Judgment, Reactions

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• There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away

  Jeff Buckley

  Moon, Expression, Long

  Song: Grace, Album: Grace, 1994

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• I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.

  Johnny Nash

  Future, Rain, Dark

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• Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Dream, Dark, Past

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.11

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• The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.

  Alexander Calder

  Air, Circles, Space

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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• After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.

  Theophilus London

  Dark, Nightlife, Warhol

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• Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Rain, People, Shining

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.61

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• We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

  H. G. Wells

  Light, Wind, Shadow

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.266, 谷月社

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• However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Thinking, Feelings

  William Hazlitt (2008). “Liber Amoris and Related Writings”, Carcanet Press

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• Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Song, Grief, Night

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.481

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• Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That's why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or even in cheese sandwiches. It's your cytoplasm, not some strange ectoplasm.

  Seth Shostak

  Cheese Sandwiches, People, Brain

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• The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair, In lonelier grace, to sun and dew The sweetbrier on the hillside shows Its single leaf and fainter hue, Untrained and wildly free, yet still a sister rose!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fashion, Garden, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.21

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• Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

  Marge Piercy

  Blood, Ice, Wind

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.

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• 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.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Political, Important, Rays

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• It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Glasses, Views, Stupidity

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.8, Harvard University Press

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• When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.

  Van Morrison

  Dark, Light, Sky

  Song: Brand New Day, Album: Moondance

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• The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Philosophy, Spring, Feet

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Oh, yesterday, that one, we all cry out. Oh, that one! How rich and possible everything was! How ripe, ready, lavish, and filled with excitement--how hopeful we were on those summer days, under the clean, white racing clouds. Oh, yesterday!

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, White, Yesterday

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and the foxes, I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the woods, by day or darkness.

  Mary Oliver

  Book, Night, Doors

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.15, Penguin

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• Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

  Hannah More

  Daughter, Spring, Women

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

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• I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Storm, Forests

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.13

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