Clouds Quotes - Page 16

• The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.

  Tod Wodicka

  Orange, Squares, Sky

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• The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Bird, Tree, January

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• Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

  Michael Pollan

  White, Bird, Hug

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.

  Santoka Taneda

  Branches, Fruit, Gray

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• I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.

  Charles Duke

  Ocean, Sight, Blue

  "In the Shadow of the Moon". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.

  Marquis de Sade

  Husband, Pregnancy, Giving

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• They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Beautiful, Thinking, Appreciate

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• All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Beautiful, Mirrors, Blue

  How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer (1975). Usually quoted as "smoke and mirrors."

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• Our collaboration with Datapipe on a managed hybrid cloud solution for AWS removes many of the common barriers to cloud adoption. It offers customers the best of both worlds by providing Equinix's secure data center platform, including private access to AWS, along with Datapipe's expertise in designing and managing an optimal IT architecture for enterprises.

  John Landy

  Data, Adoption, Design

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• Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops

  Jay Electronica

  Pain, Rain, Sometimes

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• He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out into the sea. He has told me a thousand times over that I am his reason for being; by the way he rests against my leg; by the way he thumps his tail at my smallest smile; by the way he shows his hurt when I leave without taking him. (I think it makes him sick with worry when he is not along to care for me.)

  Gene Hill

  Dog, Hurt, Eye

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• I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Flower, Air

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.353

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• The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

  Gillian Flynn

  Fear, Thinking, Feelings

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• Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

  Plutarch

  Food, Dark, Flames

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• The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way

  William Howard Taft

  Party, Rain, Political

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.150, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist.

  Jacob Zuma

  Mist

  "South Africans expect record turnout of 80% for elections" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2009.

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• The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned and dripped, their leaves snatched by the wind were whirled in wild circles through the towers. The clouds mouldered as they lay coiled, or shifted themselves uneasily upon the stone skyfield, sending up wreathes that drifted through the turrets and swarmed up hidden walls.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Dark, Lakes

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.161, The Overlook Press

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• I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

  Delano Johnson

  Hands, Sky, Wish

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• Morphlabs is excited about the OpenStack release of Essex. We believe that this release positions OpenStack to become the foundation for next generation dynamic cloud infrastructure.  We are building a fully-converged private platform around Essex, leveraging best-of-breed cloud building blocks to deliver a high-performance, flexible solution. This release marks a major a proof point of OpenStack’s commitment to open community development and pluggable APIs, which benefits the entire cloud ecosystem.

  Winston Damarillo

  Block, Believe, Commitment

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• The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory of man! As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Memories, Cutting

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.158

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• And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rain, Land, Air

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
  
  Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
  Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
  Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
  
  So is all conditioned existence to be seen.

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Fleeting World

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• I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I’m successful

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Successful, Thinking, Dirt

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• Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows as a river, then merges with the sea, the goes up again as a cloud.

  Yasmin

  Rain, Fall, Sea

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• One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.

  Colum McCann

  West, Herds, Casts

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing

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