Overcast Day Quotes

#1. Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curtained in dingy lace.

Patrick McGrath

#2. There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a gray overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever have.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. The HBS logo shone high above, a surrogate sun for the overcast day.

Jack Heath

#4. Shouldn't a catastrophe like this be met with rain? An overcast sky? It didn't seem right that things were so quiet, so calm, the day so tranquil when so many people had died, lost loved ones or suffered serious injury.

Wildbow

#5. I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

Gayle Forman

#6. I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.

Jay London

#7. In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. They lived before the Christian age began. They paid no reverence, as was due to God. And in this number I myself am one. 40 For such deficiencies, no other crime, we all are lost yet only suffer harm through living in desire, but hopelessly.

Dante Alighieri

#9. I read too much as a child; I believe now that I can bookmark unrealized events in my life to return to them later.

Charlotte Shane

#10. The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

Joseph Addison

#11. Only two journalists followed the team around.

Just Fontaine

#12. We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional ... values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

C.S. Lewis

#14. And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

Gianni Agnelli

#15. I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#16. Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#17. Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Bette Midler

#18. The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

August Wilson

#19. Shortly after, the aqueous symphony of dawn began. The last day of the Walk came up wet and overcast. The wind howled down the almost-empty alley of the road like a lost dog being whipped through a strange and terrible place.

Stephen King

#20. Beware of finding what you're looking for.
[A favorite aphorism he often used.]

Richard Hamming

#21. It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Nigel Farage