History Quote by Henry James

“He was a planet without an atmosphere.”

— Donna Tartt

“The old self seemed unprecedentedly heavier than the surrounding atmosphere.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The air was still. It was that hour before evening when the sun sheds great horizontal beams just above the horizon and the air…

— Valerie Martin

“I sometimes wish I had lived in my grandfather's time instead of today. The pattern of life was less complicated then. This was a…

— Alexander Woollcott

“Overhead the sky was dull and cloudless, a bland impassive blue, more the interior ceiling of some deep irrevocable psychosis than the storm-filled celestial…

— J.G. Ballard

“With the benefit of hindsight, the biggest mistake that I made in life was working in the toxic field of high altitude astronomy.”

— Steven Magee

“Thus, 99 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere is of biological origin. The sky is made by life.”

— Carl Sagan

“need for open air and an endless night sky. The sense of being small in such a vast universe was often soothing.”

— Suza Kates

“Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more than the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.”

— Martin Amis

“That year, we knew the sky existed because we believed in the storm, but we never saw the sky.”

— Jorge Galán

“It was like a journey into space. I was standing on Mars, knee-deep in thyme, under a sky that seemed never to have known…

— John Fowles

“The earth was initially very hot and without an atmosphere. In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission…

— Stephen Hawking