Word Prompts
Word Prompts
39) "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
~ Rabindranath Tagore
40) "Into the great wide open
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open
A rebel without a clue"
~ Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “Great Wide Open”
41) "Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."
~ Christopher Morely
42) "A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder."
~ Susan Orlean
43) "My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling."
~ Al Jarreau
44) "By and by Man will try
To get out into the sky,
Sailing far beyond the air
From Down and Here to Up and There.
Stars and sky, sky and stars
Make us feel the prison bars."
~ from the poem “Science Fiction Cradle Song” by Clive Staples Lewis
45) “I felt as if the Milky Way, hovering above our heads like a celestial pitcher, had suddenly overturned, pouring suns and planets down my throat. Stars seemed to be shooting out of my finger and toes, the ends of my hair.”
~ from the novel "Abandon" by Meg Cabot
46) "There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset."
~ G.K. Chesterton
47) "A soft air fans the cloud apart; there comes
A glimpse of that dark world where I was born.
Once more the old mysterious glimmer steals
From thy pure brows, and from thy shoulders pure,
And bosom beating with a heart renew'd.
Thy cheek begins to redden thro' the gloom,
Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly close to mine,
Ere yet they blind the stars, and the wild team
Which love thee, yearning for thy yoke, arise,
And shake the darkness from their loosen'd manes,
And beat the twilight into flakes of fire."
~ from the poem "Tithonus" by Lord Alfred Tennyson
48) “A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
~ from the novel "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
49) "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."
~ Douglas Adams
50) "When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."
~ Hilaire Belloc
51) "There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."
~ George Carlin
52) "And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
~ G. K. Chesterton
53) "It's coming like the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway,
Imperial, mysterious, in amorous array."
~ from the song "Democracy" by Leonard Cohen
54) "In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet."
~ Les Dawson
55) "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
~ Galileo Galilei
56) "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
~ Anaïs Nin
57) "For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
~ Vincent Van Gogh
58) "Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
~ Alan Watts
59) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
~ from the play "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde
60) "Ad astra per aspera" (to the stars, through hardship)
~ Unknown (Latin saying)
61 "It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender."
~ from "The Stranger Song" by Leonard Cohen
39) "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
~ Rabindranath Tagore
40) "Into the great wide open
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open
A rebel without a clue"
~ Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “Great Wide Open”
41) "Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."
~ Christopher Morely
42) "A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder."
~ Susan Orlean
43) "My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling."
~ Al Jarreau
44) "By and by Man will try
To get out into the sky,
Sailing far beyond the air
From Down and Here to Up and There.
Stars and sky, sky and stars
Make us feel the prison bars."
~ from the poem “Science Fiction Cradle Song” by Clive Staples Lewis
45) “I felt as if the Milky Way, hovering above our heads like a celestial pitcher, had suddenly overturned, pouring suns and planets down my throat. Stars seemed to be shooting out of my finger and toes, the ends of my hair.”
~ from the novel "Abandon" by Meg Cabot
46) "There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset."
~ G.K. Chesterton
47) "A soft air fans the cloud apart; there comes
A glimpse of that dark world where I was born.
Once more the old mysterious glimmer steals
From thy pure brows, and from thy shoulders pure,
And bosom beating with a heart renew'd.
Thy cheek begins to redden thro' the gloom,
Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly close to mine,
Ere yet they blind the stars, and the wild team
Which love thee, yearning for thy yoke, arise,
And shake the darkness from their loosen'd manes,
And beat the twilight into flakes of fire."
~ from the poem "Tithonus" by Lord Alfred Tennyson
48) “A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
~ from the novel "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
49) "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."
~ Douglas Adams
50) "When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."
~ Hilaire Belloc
51) "There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."
~ George Carlin
52) "And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
~ G. K. Chesterton
53) "It's coming like the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway,
Imperial, mysterious, in amorous array."
~ from the song "Democracy" by Leonard Cohen
54) "In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet."
~ Les Dawson
55) "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
~ Galileo Galilei
56) "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
~ Anaïs Nin
57) "For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
~ Vincent Van Gogh
58) "Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
~ Alan Watts
59) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
~ from the play "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde
60) "Ad astra per aspera" (to the stars, through hardship)
~ Unknown (Latin saying)
61 "It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender."
~ from "The Stranger Song" by Leonard Cohen