"We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse."
Skylines quotes
Skylines
12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach."
"Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation."
"In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion."
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