Head In Clouds Quotes

#1. On Gandhi: Don't ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

Shashi Tharoor

#2. Some girls had their heads in the clouds. My head was somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.

Angela N. Blount

#3. My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.

Clive Sinclair

#4. It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there because we don't know the secret code, but it's real all the same.
Before I didn't know to be mad that we can't open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it.

Emma Donoghue

#5. Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.

Virgil

#6. The orange sun is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday's blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.

Isaac Babel

#7. My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

Steven Spielberg

#8. Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

Tori Amos

#9. One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.

Markus Zusak

#10. He has his head in the clouds. He must live in a skyscraper.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#11. It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

Richard Paul Evans

#12. Memory, he added in a postscript, often strikes me as a kind of a dumbness. It makes one's head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

W.G. Sebald

#13. Now that I've said this, I can't help but say more, can't help but speak the words that have been gathering in my head like dark clouds before the storm, building pressure and growing, and rolling over themselves in chaos.

Carrie Ryan

#14. Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.

Virgil

#15. Having your head in the clouds is not a bad thing ... as long as you take advantage of the inspiration you find while you're there.

Misty Dawn Seidel

#16. I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

A. J. Jacobs

#17. I keep my head in the clouds.
There's not enough love in the world to weigh me down.

Wesley Eisold

#18. You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Tom Goodman-Hill

#19. I looked up, it was the first drop of rain.
Tearing through the clouds, screaming as it did.
For all this effort, it had to head towards the drain,
So I looked up and caught it in my eye instead.

Ankur Goyal

#20. If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

Ethel M. Dell

#21. As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Edmund Hillary

#22. The first fat raindrop landed on the back of Galen's hand. He tilted back his head and saw the clouds he had noticed the previous eve had grown thicker, heavier with rain. They blocked the sun as the wind began to pick up. "Shite," Logan cursed as he stood. "Just what we need.

Donna Grant

#23. The future hovered in front of her, and she rode Cruise towards it, her hands steady on the reins and her head among the clouds.

Kate Lattey

#24. Love makes people so stupid.

Magnus Flyte

#25. It was a vast emptiness vastly filled, a nothing that found room for everything -- room for grass, trees, shadowy distant hills, and far above them snow-peaks like a row of angular clouds riding the blue sky . I had lost a head and gained a world.

Douglas Harding

#26. When he looked over, Emma had her head tipped back against the tree, and was humming as she watched the clouds move through the branches. Peter realized then how alone they each were. It was just that now they were alone together.

Jennifer E. Smith

#27. Whoa, you got my head in the clouds
Whoa, you got me thinking out loud
The more you dream about me the more I believe
That nothing's ever out of reach
So dream, dream, dream

Miley Cyrus

#28. You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.

Toby Barlow

#29. Life is short if you don't notice it'll pass you by,
That's why my head is in the clouds trying to pass the sky.

Ludacris

#30. Her head full of clouds, but not in the dreamy sense. Just the empty one.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#31. I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.

Theo Jansen

#32. She kept her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.

Karen Robards

#33. I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.

Dave Grohl

#34. Even the greatest feats of man lose their luster when one's head is filled with storm clouds.

Susan Dennard

#35. They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the smoke is exhaled slowly and deliberately and the grey jet stream becomes a beautiful blue cloud of smoke.What are they trying to tell us?

Jeffrey Bernard

#36. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

Oliver Goldsmith

#37. You act like your whole life was one long January afternoon." Lawrence said. "It wouldn't do any good to go around with my head in the clouds.

Ayana Mathis

#38. If you ever expect to write fairytales, you've got to get your head in the clouds.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#39. Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

Richard P. Feynman

#40. If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.

Gary Dornhoefer

#41. It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are ... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau

#42. People who read mainly the Grounding and the Critique often criticize Kant for having his head in the clouds and for not being convincingly capable of dealing with concrete cases. A reading of the Metaphysics of Morals will show anyone how unfounded such criticisms are.

Immanuel Kant

#43. As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.

Michael J. Fox

#44. A storm was brewing. The wind has picked up and a mass of purple clouds was coming in from the West. It felt good to have my hair whipping around my head. I thought it might feel good to have hail beat down on me. Sometimes storms outside are the only relief for storms inside ...

Elizabeth Chandler

#45. Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.

Marissa Meyer

#46. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head

William Cowper