Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thornton Wilder

Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignorance, to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those-- of those about you, to spend and waste time as if you had a million years, to be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another. Now you know, that's the 'happy' existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.

Alice Meynell

The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.

William Shakespeare

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

Robert Frost

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

T. S. Eliot

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

Victor Hugo

Algebra applies to the clouds.

Stephen King

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

Meat Loaf

There has storm clouds come over the United States,

Maya Angelou

I've had rainbows in my clouds.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Kevin Reilly

Put a show in its time period, leave it in its time period, start it on time.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Stuart Desjarlait

There's still a lot of sadness. This is going to take years to get over. A lot of the students, I think they have to graduate, leave the building, get away from that.

Warren Beatty

so I can't say enough positive things about Kazan. I would leave it at that. I love the man.

Herb Sendek

Obviously, in a situation like this, as you're well aware, we're really not at liberty to talk about it. Right now, he's practicing with our team. He's going to class. That's where I think we need to leave it.

Andy Fila

(O'Brien) said that he can't leave the kids. He doesn't feel right leaving them, which I can appreciate.

Dr. Jain

Perhaps they would rather leave such things to chance.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Elif Safak

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Jerry Calhoun

Boeing has always provided a competitive package of total compensation that addresses the needs of all employees.

Ashley Wagner

I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.

Susan Hill

To be honest, I find it ridiculous; they are pulling it. The president needs to regulate (gasoline prices).

Ron Howard

Viewing in a theater is the optimum experience. It needs to be preserved. ... But, at the end of the day, technology and viewers are going to tell us what they really want.