Sunset Quotes (49)

Quotes and citations about sunset

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century... view

By: Dave Anderson

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset... view

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway... view

By: Howard Carter

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God... view

By: Gilbert K. Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.. view

By: Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature... view

By: Claude Debussy

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn... view

By: Claude Debussy

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless... view

By: Patty Duke

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year... view

By: Michael F. Easley

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies... view

By: William Faulkner

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator... view

By: Mohandas Gandhi

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets... view

By: Hamlin Garland

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer... view

By: Hugo Gernsback

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets... view

By: John Glenn

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint... view

By: George Grey

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC... view

By: Andy Grove

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather... view

By: John Hartford

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation... view

By: Dustin Hoffman

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying... view

By: Langston Hughes

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire... view

By: Pamela Hansford Johnson

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you... view

By: Krzysztof Kieslowski

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar... view

By: Boris Kodjoe

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways... view

By: Al Lewis

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven... view

By: John Lubbock

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office... view

By: George Lucas

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset... view

By: George MacDonald

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever... view

By: Horace Mann

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever... view

By: Horace Mann

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip... view

By: Merrill Markoe

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also... view

By: John McCain

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York... view

By: Ikue Mori

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea... view

By: Peter Noone

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word... view

By: Laurence Olivier

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset.. view

By: Francis Parkman

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better... view

By: Henry Rollins

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once... view

By: Marilyn vos Savant

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'.. view

By: John Sayles

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans... view

By: Parker Stevenson

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset... view

By: Charles Sturt