Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Friedman

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

I get depressed when the sun is clouded over. It affects me.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

Janine Shepherd

We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.

The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or web browsers are made by U.S. companies. When the rest of the world uses the net, they are effectively using U.S.-based services, making them a legal target for U.S. intelligence.

We haven't seen Earth before like this, and we're going to discover new things about Earth and clouds that we've not experienced before.

It hasn't sunk in yet. I'm going to be on cloud nine the rest of the week and probably longer. This is amazing.

It is essential the commission be a place of the utmost integrity and there be no question as to whether it's tainted by the presence of one member or another. I fear we are now at a point where there is a cloud over this body.

William Shakespeare

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

It feels like we have to play a perfect game because every mistake is in the net. It feels like we've got a cloud over our heads.

Barbara Boxer

I think everybody remembers when Dr. Rice went on television and talked about the mushroom cloud that we could get, courtesy of Saddam Hussein,

Amy Landecker

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

John Danforth

We're also saying that the investigation is critically important, that there is a cloud over the United Nations, there's no doubt about it, that the only way to dispel the cloud is to let the sunlight in, and that means a thorough investigation.

We don't have time to think about last season. They're good now. We can't cloud our guys' minds too much with last season. We have to play well because Ohio is good this season.

We are seeing dark clouds on the horizon because of slowing housing markets. The inverted yield curve could be a sign of a slowdown in the economy. Treasuries yields are unlikely to rise.

Stephan Pastis

I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour, ... I took a picture with him. He looked at some of the strips that I had been doing and gave me some tips. Man, I was on cloud nine.

I wouldn't say the sun is shining on them yet, but the clouds are parting. I see a lot of opportunity.

Mark Morris

Here we're talking about some galactic scale event that takes an already very massive cloud and just crushes it into extremely high densities forming, in one fell swoop, hundreds and hundreds of stars, most of which are far more massive than our own sun.

Joe Girardi

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

Jerome Bettis

I think it's been my work ethic. I've just been a hard worker, a guy that's always trying to be positive and put a positive swing on things sometimes even in the darkest moments. And I think people can relate to that being a blue-collar guy. My game is a blue-collar game. Three yards and a cloud of dust and get up and do it again. That's the way in the Midwest, especially Detroit, which is a very, very blue-collar town. I think people relate to that, as well as Pittsburgh.

Daniel Johnston

There is good news in sight but there are some dark clouds on the horizon,

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.

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.

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.

I do not see any dark clouds on the horizon for Microsoft. I think it's straight shooting, straight up.

Giant pandas are easy compared to clouded leopards.

David Mitchell

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

David Mitchell

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.

Whenever we see clouds at all, whenever we see any rain, there tends to be a decrease in the use. People feel better about life, I guess, when it's rainy or cloudy, in terms of the life of their plants.

Charlotte Bronte

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

Edward Gibbon

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.