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Sky Quotes (page 20)

Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere. George Orwell
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. Albert Camus
The fields are black and ploughed, and they lie like a great fan before us, with their furrows gathered in some hand beyond the sky, spreading forth from that hand, opening wide apart as they come toward us, like black pleats that sparkle with thin, green spangles. Ayn Rand
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself. Kate Chopin
John Keats quote: "What, man, do you mistake the hollow sky For a thronged tavern..."
What, man, do you mistake the hollow sky For a thronged tavern ...? John Keats
Charlaine Harris quote: "My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the..."
My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky. Charlaine Harris
Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Charles Dickens
John Berryman quote: "Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the..."
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn John Berryman
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh. Aldo Leopold
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot. Sherman Alexie
In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. W. H. Auden
William Gibson quote: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a..."
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. William Gibson
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring Soren Kierkegaard
Tori Amos quote: "Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the..."
Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes. Tori Amos
When the young womanleans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits openuntil her milk runs. Gunter Grass

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