Quote by Stanley Elkin

“The sky was a fresh-swept blue, with only a trace of white cloud clinging to the dome of heaven like a thin streak of…

— Haruki Murakami

“The only clouds are pale and thin, hung as high as they can manage, like cobwebs in the high arches of a stairwell, and…

— Jon McGregor

“Every feeling I ever knew was up in that sky: Twinkling joyous sunlight; airy, giggling cloud wisps; blinding columns of sun. Orbs of gold,…

— Maria Semple

“You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race back over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The…

— Annie Proulx

“And eventually the dark peeled back layer by layer, and with imperceptible gradations the sky feathered to a delicate pale blue.”

— Ransom Riggs

“When heavy cloud decks enveloped the planet, they created a whole new surface that had never before existed, of high mountain ranges, tumbling ravines.…

— Alan Shepard

“The sky was rarely more than pale blue or violet, with a profusion of mighty, weightless, ever-changing clouds towering up and sailing on it,…

— Karen Blixen

“The color of the sky was like a length of white chalk turned on its side and rubbed into asphalt. Sanded--that was how the…

— David Guterson

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting.”

— John Green

“Then, as if they were wind-blown clouds, all of the ideas in which we’ve felt life and all the ambitions and plans on which…

— Fernando Pessoa

“But the sky! The sky is blue. Its limpidness is not marred by a single cloud. (How primitive was the taste of the ancients,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin