Western Sky Quotes

#1. If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

Nancy Kress

#2. The burnished rays of the setting sun flamed glory on the clouds of the western sky before shattering in gold and vermilion dapples on the darkening waters of the river. Once Karras met God in this sight. Long ago. Like a lover forsaken, he still kept the rendezvous.

William Peter Blatty

#3. I was born in Swindon ... a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.

Justin Hayward

#4. The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

Sappho

#5. She looked towards the western sky, which was now aglow like some vast foundry wherein new worlds were cast

Thomas Hardy

#6. Everyone grew silent. It was sunset now, with orange fire burning in the western sky, and shadows falling across all of us.

Richelle Mead

#7. The sunset was really over, but a thunderously deep stain of red still lay across the furthest limit of the western sky. I looked out to it for a moment. Skye was somewhere out there, more felt than seen.

Iain Banks

#8. Her gaze traveled across the western sky that was dotted with clouds and was held by the wintry looking sun, so pure, so lovely, and so impossible to touch. Sheila felt that that was how her love was - Out of reach, unquestionably warm, and as certain as the celestial ball.

Shampa Sharma

#9. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Walt Whitman

#10. I know this is going to sound really cheesy, but I have the coolest dad in the entire world. My dad is hilarious. He's also strong, smart and makes me feel like he's going to take care of everything. I think those are the qualities I look for in a boyfriend.

Lea Michele

#11. I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere.
I mean ... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.

Sophie Kinsella

#12. I don't care about the Constitution! The Constitution isn't here; you're here. Don't be a pinhead.

Bill O'Reilly

#13. My decision (for Christ) was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair. I was decided upon.

C.S. Lewis

#14. I am grateful for all those people who said no. It is because of them that I did it myself. Practice an attitude of gratitude. You can either be miserable dwelling on the troubles you have or grateful for the ones you don't have. Your troubles don't care but it makes a huge difference in your life.

Michael Josephson

#15. The sky had lightened when they got up from the sand. They shook the blanket before wrapping it around them both. Cuddling close they entered the hotel, shivering as they stood in the elevator.

Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

#16. But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.

Chris LeDoux

#17. Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul - you create suffering.

Anais Nin

#18. They rode up a trail until the trees parted and they got their first good view of Lone Peak across the valley and river. This late morning it was breathtaking. The stark peak gleamed against the deep blue of the big sky. No wonder this area had been named Big Sky.

B. J. Daniels

#19. This chariot is built out of human dreams about the sun, kid. It's as old as Western Civilization. Every day, it drives across the sky from east to west, lighting up all those puny little mortal lives. The chariot is a manifestation of the sun's power, the way mortals perceive it.

Rick Riordan

#20. We sat on the terrace and talked as the sun slipped into the western sea and the stars filled the sky above us.

Michael Schmicker

#21. I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.

Gerard Butler

#22. Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#23. Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Astro Teller

#24. Life is transient and ephemeral so dance in your own way.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#26. When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

Will Arnett

#27. When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Stephen Vizinczey

#28. Evie," he whispered next to her ear, "I want to make love to you, hold you in my arms, until the moon crosses the sky and the morning comes.

Caroline Fyffe

#29. There are choices to be made...beware you do not make the wrong one.

Laken Cane

#30. Sunset encroached upon daylight like a powder burst from the mouth of a crimson cannon - orange and gold ribbons shot forth to wage a battle against the clouds. The western horizon was obscured by a glow like a living thing.

Marsha Ward

#31. I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

Zane Grey

#32. The sky was a fading red and nothing remained of the day save for a line of molten gold slowly lowering on the western horizon.

Scott Lynch

#33. The bats stop flying above and the moon stands still. He commands the air and the sky and my body.

Eliza Freed