Quotes by Clouds Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain? Alan Lightman ocean rain clouds Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion. Alan Watts stars clouds reality The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. Albert Camus storm clouds war The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein? Albert Pinkham Ryder color artist clouds What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein? Albert Pinkham Ryder storm color clouds Those playful fancies of the mighty sky. Albert Richard Smith fancy sky clouds A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail. Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dark clouds years Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms. Alex Shoumatoff elephants emotional clouds 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 circles air clouds I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk. Alexander Graham Bell laughter clouds laughing 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 clouds beautiful thinking Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Alexander Pope god clouds science Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves. Alexander Pope eagles clouds moving Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. Alexander Pope change clouds fall Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. Alexander Pope god clouds wind We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more. Alexander Smith lonely clouds sweet It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising Alexandre Dumas soul sky clouds What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination. Alexandre Dumas illumination light clouds Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart. Alexis de Tocqueville clouds heart men 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 clouds «1234567891011»
