There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds, beating like black hearts
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MICHEL FABER One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER They are lignite mines, a very soft, brown coal. The mines are up near Henderson, and there are othe...
DONALD OWEN Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.
JEFFREY FRY Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
DUKE ELLINGTON Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
FRANK GIFFORD Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
MARKUS ZUSAK No matter where you go - there you are
CONFUCIUS Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
BARRY SHEENE And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak...
LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD When I bring you colored toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE You check out the cover, you check out the backward, you check out the author, you check out the tit...
DEYTH BANGER There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good ...
JOSEPH ROUX Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK People who are soft spoken and truthful are loved by all.
RIG VEDA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Where There Are Clouds, There Is A Kingdom.
SIMEON There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, a...
T.F. HODGE The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sk...
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MARKUS ZUSAK Ungrateful and perpetually complaining people are like a leaking pail,no amount of blessings can sat...
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ALAN MOLLER Though there are both hard and soft business elements in building organizational capabilities. Still...
PEARL ZHU The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their heart...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And out hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Patience. I colored patience gray, hung over with black clouds. I colored hope yellow, just like the...
V.C. ANDREWS There are items that have far superior quality when manufactured in space, but need to be returned t...
DYLAN TAYLOR There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
CHRIS HEIMERDINGER The possibility of different colored shirts is there. Whether it is white, black or gold there could...
JOEL RASMUS I looked briefly up from my notes. I was surrounded by hearts, sectioned and preserved. Hearts with ...
CLAIRE HOLDEN ROTHMAN There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
NEIL GAIMAN There are people in the world who care about automobiles, and there are people who couldn't care les...
LEMONY SNICKET Be there next time when the happiness will visit you.
MARIANA FULGER If you haven't been there, use your imagination. Imagination takes you everywhere.
EPHDAN From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
DR. SUESS He wanted to tell her how much he preferred to look at her, that only by watching could he memorize ...
JERZY KOSINKSI Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
JODI PICOULT We have them just where they want us.
JAMES T. KIRK It started somewhere from there.
DEYTH BANGER Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.
LEMONY SNICKET There are a couple of difficult games coming up like away to Hearts.
MARTIN O'NEILL I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and the...
MAGGIE SMITH There are people whose deaths make you ache with sadness. And then there are people whose deaths pre...
MARISA DE LOS SANTOS To the victims and people out there, our hearts are going out to them. We're not forgetting about th...
CARMEN ELECTRA The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who ...
LORRAINE HANSBERRY I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and ...
MARCUS GARVEY Our hearts are there. Our homes are there. Please don't move our community.
JACQUIE SINGLETON Idea is an introduction to creativity that gives birth to reality.
STEPHEN MAGNUS The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove'...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We ha...
SHAKIRA I like America; I enjoy being there. Some people can't stand the insincerity - I love the waiter...
DAVID HAREWOOD Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.
MARKUS ZUSAK How many times did she have to say goodbye?
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MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did.
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
***ABOUT RUDY STEINER***
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MARKUS ZUSAK Our Life is like Sun !
Sometime clouds cover up the skies just like in our life clouds of disappoint...
SHUBHAM CHAVAN There is good news in sight but there are some dark clouds on the horizon,
DANIEL JOHNSTON Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.
EYDEN I. In my eyes, there are no white people, no black people, no any color people. JUST PEOPLE.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER There are many clouds on the horizon. The situation is very foggy and difficult to read.
FAWAZ GERGES There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both...
CANELO ALVAREZ There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI And there, there overhead, there hung over Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes, There i...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nu...
LYNN GOOD There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There are very few really stark black and white stories.
JIM LEHRER There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.
OSCAR WILDE If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love ...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black w...
DAVID DUKE My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly color...
RACHEL ZOE Clear skies, cousin". Good luck, he means. There are never clear skies on Avon, no blue, no stars. B...
AMIE KAUFMAN From hyperborean skies
Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.
ALEXANDER POPE We're all out there in August beating the bushes, and the voters are still at the beach.
CLAY RICHARDS There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
TED KNIGHT That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no...
ZAKK WYLDE There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
G. K. CHESTERTON There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
G.K. CHESTERTON You chart pressures, like a weather man looks for clouds and storms, ... There are formations out th...
JON GRUDEN We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by b...
PHILIP K. DICK My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who d...
SVETLANA CHMAKOVA All saints are gonna be there? Tre, you might get laid!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... Don't use it because it is available for you. It is available for you just in case you need it.
EPHDAN A tough lesson we must learn in life is that....NOT everyone is going to wish you well, not everyone...
JESSICA FAYE HAMMER To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Sometimes we do not realize how many people give a damn until something horrible happens. And someti...
MONIKA BASILE I may not be the kind of person you want me to, but I will always be there for you.
ALFUSAINEY JALLOW Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are n...
LIONEL SHRIVER Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Some people are like clouds. When they go away, it's a brighter day.
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MARKUS ZUSAK And why?’ He pauses. ‘I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy lik...
MARKUS ZUSAK She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
MARKUS ZUSAK The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds...
MARKUS ZUSAK How many times did she have to say goodbye?
MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t...
MARKUS ZUSAK Here is a small fact: You are going to die"
"does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I...
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did.
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
***ABOUT RUDY STEINER***
He didn't deserve to die the way he ...
MARKUS ZUSAK The moon was sewn into the sky that night
MARKUS ZUSAK The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sk...
MARKUS ZUSAK He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would...
MARKUS ZUSAK He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was ...
MARKUS ZUSAK An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
MARKUS ZUSAK Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.
MARKUS ZUSAK If your eyes could speak, what would they say?.
MARKUS ZUSAK Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of a...
MARKUS ZUSAK The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was no...
MARKUS ZUSAK