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Cloud Quotes
Some clouds hang over more than the sky.
This page pairs literal clouds, like a city's hazy atmosphere over its rivers, with figurative ones, such as the security challenges that come with cloud computing. Related sky-themed reading continues in Sky.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
- City
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to identify a nice scent from within the chemical cloud of a perfume department.
- Internet
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Infrastructures of power always inhabit the surface of the earth somehow, or the skies above the earth. They're material things, always, and even though the metaphors we use to describe them are often immaterial - for example, we might describe the Internet as the Cloud or cyberspace - those metaphors are wildly misleading.
- Overcome
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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
- Fact
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Cloud computing is a fact of life.
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It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.'
- Everything
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Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.
- Lonely
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The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
- Fertility
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It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen.
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I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like a cloud for ten years, following the food supply. I was a hunter, gatherer, an academic migrant.
- Digital
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Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.
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In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.
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