Black Quote by Philip Jose Farmer

whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches…

— David Lodge

There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and…

— John Dos Passos

“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,…

— Anton Chekhov

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend…

— Edith Wharton

“Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations. Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies like a snowflake falling on water. Below us, some farmer, feeling…

— Ted Kooser

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was…

— William Anders

Unfolding enveloping missiles of soul recall senses sadly. Mirage like soft blue like lanterns below to light the way gladly. Whether whistling heaven's clouds…

— The Beach Boys

“I'm far from the world and I see it like a brightly lit ball in the distance. The sky behind it is mostly gray.…

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

“Cursing themselves in ragged dreams fire has singed the edges of, they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with. Shimmering…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

He shines like a street lamp behind the deep silent night,he lights up the nigh, like a stardust leading us up to the sky

— Cath Chatto

“Water began to drip steadily through the dormer window. Outside, in the treacherous city, a thaw had come, giving the streets the unreliable consistency…

— Salman Rushdie