Mayakovsky Cloud Quotes & Sayings

Here's how I used to think
you made a book:
a poet comes along,
mouth half open, inspired,
then suddenly the idiot bursts into song -
fancy that! — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously. — Nicole Richie

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary. — Henry David Thoreau

If you like
I'll be furious flesh elemental,
or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like-
I'll be extraordinary gentle,
not a man but - a cloud in trousers. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience. — Thomas A. Edison

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self. — Eric Hoffer

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers! — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies. — Aulus Persius Flaccus

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. — Michel De Montaigne

It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat. — Amanda Grange

Here's the problem: we are taught nothing. How to sew, grow food, preserve food, build things, fix things, make fires, birth babies, care for babies, feed babies, move through time, grow old, die, grieve, change, sit still, be quiet. Still and quiet, endless Interneters, quiet, quiet, quiet. How to be alone, how to shut up and be — Elisa Albert

The domain of quantum world is so astonishingly strange that it even makes tales of alien abductions sound perfectly reasonable — Jim Al-Khalili