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• In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

  Piper Perabo

  Texas, Sky, Hot

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• The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

  Tina Brown

  Monday, Past, Rocks

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• Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.

  John Ruskin

  Rocks, Sight, Snow

  1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.i, ch.2.

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• These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests, comfort of the grass, Music of birds, murmur of little rills, Shadows of cloud that swiftly pass, And, after showers, The smell of flowers And of the good brown earth,- And best of all, along the way, friendship and mirth.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Friendship, Peace, Flower

  Henry Van Dyke, “God Of The Open Air”

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• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

  Italo Calvino

  Travel, Distance, Dust

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• The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

  Edward Young

  Wisdom, Titles, May

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.227

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• One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

  Robert Browning

  Courage, Fall, Sleep

  'Asolando' (1889) 'Epilogue'

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• Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.

  Li Bai

  Spring, Rain, Winter

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• I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.

  Renee Zellweger

  Lying, Texas, Remember

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• But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

  Richard Serra

  Play, Path, Consideration

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• Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

  Edward Abbey

  Air, Weather, Lightning

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.107, University of Arizona Press

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• Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.

  Alfred Billings Street

  Summer, Sky, Steps

  Alfred Billings Street (1850). “The Poems of Alfred B. Street”, p.20

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• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  1819 'The Cloud'.

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• It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

  Frank Borman

  Lonely, Doe, Stones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Sea, Land, Ideas

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• On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Looks, Sides, Gray

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

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• Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

  Black Elk

  White, Mountain, Three

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

  John Milton

  Night, Silver, Turns

  'Comus' (1637) l. 221

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• The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

  Bob Woodward

  Political, Doubt, Figures

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Moving, Wind, Imagination

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• Losses are always a relief. They take a burden off me, make me feel more normal. If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. If I lose I go back to the dressing room and I'm no better nor worse than anyone else. A loss gets me eager again.

  Chris Evert

  Loss, Winning, Relief

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• Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!

  Vera Nazarian

  Patterns, Different, Use

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• I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

  Abraham Cowley

  Fate, Night, Wish

  Abraham Cowley, “A Vote (Excerpt)”

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• What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

  David Mitchell

  Giving, Atlas, Maps

  "Cloud Atlas". "The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 389. Book by David Mitchell, 2004.

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• And the Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it be the physical body, the common things of life, the winds and the rain, the clouds, the earth itself -is amenable to man's thought, and that he had dominion over it when he knows it.

  Emmet Fox

  Truth, Rain, Men

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