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  • Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

    Blue   Sky   Looks  
  • I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.

    Dream   Strong   Real  
  • Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

    Winter   Night   Clouds  
  • Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.

    Goodbye   Air   Sky  
    Song: Fire Door
  • Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

    Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books
  • On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot long boat made of plywood and fiberglass. I planned to row 3,637 miles across the North Atlantic to France. I was alone. There were no chase vessels. No one planned to drop food or equipment to me along the way. The physical goal was easy to explain: I was attempting to do something no American and no woman had ever done - to row solo across an ocean.

    Ocean   June   Sky  
  • Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.

    Science   Years   Sky  
    Peter Brian Medawar (1979). “Advice to a young scientist”, Harpercollins Childrens Books
  • I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

    Music   Art   Opportunity  
    "The Best of the Music Makers". Book by George Thomas Simon, 1979.
  • Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

    Strong   Home   Men  
    Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”
  • Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.

    Couple   Knowing   Sky  
    FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jul 17, 2012
  • I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.

    Heart   Men   Passing By  
  • People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

    Moving   Dark   Past  
  • The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

    Lakes   Sky   White  
    Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”
  • The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.

    Artist   Sky   Blue  
    Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher
  • His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.

    Fall   Fire   Color  
    Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
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