Clouds Quotes - Page 34

• If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.

  Stephen Fry

  Mistake, Thinking, Understanding

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  Olivia Colman

  Mean, Shoes, Black

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• No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Vagueness, Purpose

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.50, Modern Library

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• Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.

  Rajneesh

  Nature, Stars, Eye

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• Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

  Paul Simon

  Inspirational, Negative Words, Sky

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.

  Theophrastus

  Science, Fire, Air

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• If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.

  Nhat Hanh

  Rain, Tree, Floating

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2017). “The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries”, p.21, Parallax Press

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• If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!

  Antonio Porchia

  Stars, Moving, Hmmm

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Sky, Never Change

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.42, editionNEXT.com

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• In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Humanity

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• The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

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• The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Evil, Sun, Wanted

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• If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life too hard, and time too long. We must be grateful to the divine goodness for having left us this hidden Jesus, this pillar of cloud and fire in this desert

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Grateful, Fire

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• Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

  Eva Brann

  Beautiful, Liars, Littles

  Eva Brann “Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad”, Paul Dry Books

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• Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.

  Iimani David

  Beautiful, Life Is Short, Years

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• The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

  Ethel Smyth

  Indulge In, Personality, Style

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning, however, is not something that floats in space, permeating the universe like a nebulous, mystical cloud. ... Meaning arises out of the working of the human mind, and therefore exists only in the human mind. The meaning of existence is whatever you want to make of it.

  Milton A. Rothman

  Space, Mind, Want

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• If you build a cloud network, people will share.

  Ray Kinsella

  People, Share, Ifs

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• If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

  A. A. Milne

  Air, Blue, Sky

  When We Were Very Young "Spring Morning" l. 9 (1924)

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• 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.

  Steve Ballmer

  Innovation, Wave, Phenomenon

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• Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Light, Israel

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• Without [these] lights and [this] little throne our Lord cannot come out of His tabernacle. We give them to Him, and we say to Him: 'Thou are on a beautiful throne. It is we that have erected it for Thee. It is we that have opened the door of Thy prison and rent the cloud that hid Thee, O Sun of Love. Dart Thy rays now on every heart'

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Heart, Light

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• Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

  Charles Kingsley

  Military, War, Rain

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Funest philosophers and ponderers,
  Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophical, Speech, Philosopher

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.55, Vintage

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• Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

  Homer

  Wind, White, Foam

  Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.342

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