Parachute Sky Jump

Famous quotes containing the words parachute, sky and/or jump:

    “I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps.
    The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees are black.
    The grackles crack their throats of bone in the smooth air.
    Moisture and heat have swollen the garden into a slum of bloom.
    Pardie! Summer is like a fat beast, sleepy in mildew....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)