Famous Quotes & Sayings

He just wanted this thing to end. He just wanted to take his young men out on that court and perform without that cloud over their head.

Joe Girardi

He said 'I think I need to come and play.' I respect that. I'm sure he's on cloud nine.

We're on Cloud 9. This has probably been the (team's) greatest 24-hour period since 1984.

We're obviously completely embarrassed and unhappy. To come in here and lose, 7-0, is a total embarrassment. There's no reason we should lose to any team by seven goals. We'd better get our heads out of the clouds and play the way we know how.

I think we are going to continue to have this cloud hang over us.

Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.

He was in cloud cuckoo land for the remainder of the game - which included his hat-trick try.

Richard P. Feynman

What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt

Roz Savage

When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.

Werner Herzog

Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?

Roland Barthes

Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of words, but the meaning of things themselves. This is why it clouds the language, increases as much as it can the abstractness of the concept and the arbitrariness of the sign and stretches to the limit the link between signifier and signified.

Washington Irving

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Right then I realized what this mission was about. There was the mushroom cloud and miles and miles of glare. We were all amazed.

William Blake

Piping down the valleys wild, / Piping songs of pleasant glee, / On a cloud I saw a child.

Fay Vincent

Recent indications are up to 50 percent of the players in the 90s were using steroids. It puts a real cloud over that period in baseball.

Geoffrey Moore

Rehnquist was a jurist who truly understood the role of the court. He did not let personal opinions cloud his interpretation of the Constitution. His opinions were grounded in the idea that he is to interpret the law, not create it.

Iran and GM are the dark clouds hanging over this market.

Instead of there being one big cloud or datacenter being hosted by Microsoft, there will be multiple smaller clouds hosting these services such as ISPs and other providers right out of the box.

David Perry

Cloud Gaming means that the game doesn't need to be downloaded and run on your computer; it literally means the game runs out on the Internet, in the cloud, with the experience being streamed to the players.

If you do nothing, you leave a cloud on the game. What needs to be done is a fair, honest, thorough investigation of the facts. Then you go from there.

I haven't stopped smiling since 5 o'clock yesterday (Tuesday). I am walking on cloud nine.

Daniel Smith

I'm on cloud nine. It's amazing. (The 100 backstroke) has been my key race all year. I just thought back to times when I exceeded my expectations and tried to do the same thing.

I hope these statements and what has been said and written will be a passing summer cloud ... My statements have nothing to do with the Iraqi government,

The first thing is to linger on cloud nine for a while.

The equity market has quite a considerable number of dark clouds hovering over it.

James Joyce

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

Friedrich Schiller

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

John Brown

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

Todd Howard

All we saw was a cloud of smoke.

The effect of dust on cloud properties is to inhibit precipitation,

Mike Melvill

The flight was spectacular. Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.

Barry Ritholtz

The only dark cloud to this number is that now the Fed has no reason whatsoever to stop raising rates.