Joseph P. Allen quotes

“The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.”
-- Joseph P. Allen

#Sunset Quotes #Eight Quotes #Blue Quotes

“You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.”
-- Joseph P. Allen

#Ocean Quotes #Fire Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.”

“As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.”

Source : Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

“His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.”

“My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.”

Source : A.P. Herbert (2014). “Mild And Bitter”, p.20, House of Stratus

“President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.”

“I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso (1845). “The Shadowless Man; Or, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl”

“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.”

“Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.”

Source : "The Man Who Invented Hip Hop". Interview with Zack O'Malley Greenburg, www.forbes.com. July 9, 2009.

“The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.”