Quotes with pie-in-the-sky

Quotes 61 till 80 of 105.

  • Sir John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Say Yes to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say Yes to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say Yes to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bayard Taylor Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bobby Fischer Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
    Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bram Stoker Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Bradley Chicho Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Joan Rivers Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • C. V. Raman The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Lord George Byron The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Louise Erdrich The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Brad Sherman The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Buford The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Douglas Adams The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Richard Nixon The sky is no longer the limit.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Ruskin The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • A. E. Housman The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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