Sky Filled Quote by Dorie Miller

“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a…

— Steven Galloway

The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that…

— Flannery O'Connor

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being…

— Haruki Murakami

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

— Ayn Rand

It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of…

— Charles Dickens

The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.

— Stephen R. Lawhead

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

— Barney Ross

A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion…

— Paul Tibbets

By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far…

— Cormac McCarthy

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an…

— Ernie Pyle

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

— Sara Sheridan

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge