Scudding Quotes

#1. And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky.

John Betjeman

#2. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees; all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name ...

Robert Galbraith

#3. The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff in brick-and-steel rigor mortis, pale in their eternity of sooty death.

Harlan Ellison

#4. ...the passing gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and passing, [are] like the gladness and sorrow of a man's life.

Bram Stoker

#5. The bells were ringing again, high in the scudding sunlight in bright disorderly tatters of sound.

William Faulkner

#6. They came like specters from the dark maw of the bayou, first ghostly light in the fog, then the rasp of a motor: an aluminum powerboat scudding across lacquer-black water.

Tom Cooper

#7. The clouds are scudding across the moon,
A misty light is on the sea;
The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune,
And the foam is flying free.

Bayard Taylor

#8. The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

Michael Pollan

#9. If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?

Elizabeth Lowell

#10. What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

Carl Sagan

#11. Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

Nick Hornby

#12. Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ...

Anne Tyler

#14. A true lover never wants anything but gives with all his heart.

Debasish Mridha

#15. There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.

Jimmy Carter

#16. Tempus edax rerum.
Time that devours all things.

Ovid

#17. I hate it when you 'deal' with me." "OK, what if I 'handle' you instead?

Orson Scott Card