“You can't take the sky from me.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
“You can't take the sky from me.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
“The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Seraph on the Suwanee
Source: Seraph on the Suwanee
“One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.”
Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity
Source: Code Name Verity
Gary Paulsen (1939) American writer and musher
Source: Caught by the Sea
“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
Source: The Palace of Illusions
“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee”
Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“His face was like the autumn sky, overcast one moment and bright the next.”
Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness
Source: Heart of Darkness
“Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Our baboon was going completely sky goddess - which is to say, nuts.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
“She stood lost in eternity… watching the immense sky…”
Angela Carter The Magic Toyshop
Source: The Magic Toyshop
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Rises
“I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.”
Maria Dahvana Headley (1977) American writer
Source: Magonia
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
“What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?”
James Clavell book Shōgun
Yabu-san's death poem after being ordered to commit seppuku.
Shōgun (1975)
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director
Source: Journal 1970-1986
“our bones
like stems into the sky
will forever cry
victory”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
“When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.”
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Source: The Republic of Thieves
T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: Selected Poems
“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Backbone of Night [Episode 7]
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Into the Mystic
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)
John Fowles book The Collector
Source: The Collector
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
Source: Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow
First lines
Source: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
“There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Dancing of Sounds http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21378/Dancing_of_Sounds <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(29th March 1823) Song - All over the world with thee, my love !
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist
Quote from Degas' working notes; as quoted in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 34
quotes, undated
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist
In a letter to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, February 10, 1944; as quoted in Voicing our visions, -Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, pp. 227-28
1930 - 1950
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 8
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
" A Rival of the Yosemite: The Cañon of the South Fork of King's River, California http://books.google.com/books?id=fWoiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA77" The Century Magazine, volume XLIII, number 1 (November 1891) pages 77-97 (at page 86) <br class="br">1890s
Radhanath Swami (1950) Gaudiya Vaishnava guru
Republished on The Journey Home website.
The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami (Tulsi Books, 2010)
“I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.”
Walt Whitman Starting from Paumanok
Starting from Paumanok. 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Drei Matones, 1904–15. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 187.
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
"February".
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)
“What is the chance that one can roll up the sky like a hide?”
Subhash Kak (1947) Indian computer scientist
The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) expressionist painter
Quote from Werefkin's letter to Alexej von Jawlensky, 1910 Lithuanian Martynas-Mazvydas-National Library, Vilnius, RS (F19-1458,1.31) as reprinted in Weidle, Marianne Werefkin, Die Farbe beisst mich ans Herz, 108; as quoted in 'Identity and Reminiscence in Marianne Werefkin's Return Home', c. 1909; Adrienne Kochman http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring06/52-spring06/spring06article/171-ambiguity-of-home-identity-and-reminiscence-in-marianne-werefkins-return-home-c-1909 <br class="br">1906 - 1911
Joanna Newsom (1982) American musician
Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne <br class="br"> Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter II, Sec. 5
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 465, Ode (23 August 1712).
Also in The Polite Arts (1749), Chap. XXI. "Of Lyrick Poetry."
The Spectator (1711–1714)
David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music
From his film True Stories