#clouds

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#london #morning #nature #petty-ambitions #sherlock-holmes

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#architecture #castle #clouds #rules

come mon vieux, the stomach calls. A simple but satisfying meal, that is what i perscribe. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#death

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#star #stars

Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#clouds #pillow #obedience

I run like I have cirrus clouds for legs and rainbow knees. What is life, if not a marathon of love?
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— Jarod Kintz

#clouds #funny #humor #knees #life

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him? ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#escape #jealousy #jealousy

Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#dark-clouds #discourage #haters #jealousy #negative-people

Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#heart #love #poetry #love

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#clouds #dream #dreamer #grab #handful