Overhead Quotes
133 quotes by 118 authors
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At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but…
— Albert Camus
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The house was on fire," i greeted them tersely. "In case you're interested." they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house…
— James Patterson
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On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from…
— Malcolm X
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The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes…
— Steve Martin
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Just sit tight. Reinforcements should be here soon. Hopefully nothing happens before-" Lightning crackled overhead. The wind picked up with a vengeance. Worksheets flew into…
— Rick Riordan
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How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.
— Christopher Pike
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Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're…
— Eddie Vedder
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With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of…
— Jack London
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Sorry!' Dave's friend yelled when he saw me. 'That was my-' But i wasn't listening as,instead,i took every bit of the anger and stress of…
— Sarah Dessen
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...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started spinning overhead. Hana…
— Lauren Oliver
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Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a…
— Marcel Proust
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...they come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so…
— Mira Grant
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Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a…
— C.S. Lewis
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I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where…
— John Wilson
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Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.
— Haruki Murakami
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All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the…
— Denis Johnson
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I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a…
— Charles Bukowski
Who Wrote These Overhead Quotes
118 authors contributed a total of 133 Overhead Quotes, led by these top contributors: