"Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower."

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Source : Alfred Billings Street (1850). “The Poems of Alfred B. Street”, p.20

Alfred Billings Street

#Summer Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated clothes or spend ten days making a dress. Mine is all done by scaling measurements. I use the body as the land, as when building a house.”
“There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.”
“Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged; the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.”
“Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.”
“I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job.”

Source : "Bo Bice's debut video to Include Smurfs, Fairy Dust (Just kidding!)" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. February 22, 2006.
“The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.”

Source : George Reisman (1979). “The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls”, Green Hill Pub
“The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.”
“When I went to see Valentino in Rome, I discovered 120 women in these ateliers who sew $100,000 dresses. There are no sewing machines. It's all done by hand for thousands of hours. It's a dying art and Valentino is really the last practitioner, the last person at the top of his house, which is why I called it The Last Emperor. That world is gone. You can almost see it slipping away as the cameras are rolling.”

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