“ The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world. ”
- James Thomson- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all — he's walking on them. ”
- Leonard L. Levinson- Copy
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“ Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones — let them read the prayers. ”
- David Garrick- Copy
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“ Nothing that is can pause or stay;The moon will wax, the moon will wane,The mist and cloud will turn to rain,The rain to mist and cloud again,To-morrow be to-day. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud Without our special wonder? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion… .this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond the horizon. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 722
“ The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
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“ Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the dim of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find. ”
- Kuo His- Copy
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“ A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. ”
- Leonard L. Levinson- Copy
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“ A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain. ”
- George Pope Morris- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity. ”
- Diane Ackerman- Copy
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“ They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. ”
- Tallulah Bankhead- Copy
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“ Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud — it passes. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 3.3K
“ We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. ”
- Paul Tillich- Copy
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“ The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A. ”
- Jack Kerouac- Copy
- 2.4K
“ For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came. Thy very beams will dry those vapors up, For every cloud engenders not a storm. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I softly sink into the bath of sleep:With eyelids shut, I see around me closeThe mottled, violet vapors of the deep,That wraps me in repose. ”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland- Copy
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“ Continued their course west till the afternoon, then southwest and discovered that what they had taken for land was nothing but clouds. ”
- Christopher Columbus- Copy
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