![It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came to me. I wrote [“Moon River”] in half an hour.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-took-me-a-long-time-to-figure-out-what-holly-golightly-was-all-about-one-nigh.jpg)
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moon light tree
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Charles Dickens
moon night dollars
So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon. Alan Watts
moon suffering world
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.
moon sun earth
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon. Alan Hovhaness
moon paint knows
But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not. Alan Bean
moon remember i-can
I can remember walking on the moon.
moon rugged
The moon is very rugged.
moon land way
It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.
moon difficult knows
We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
night liberty sun
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set. Charles Caleb Colton
night people causes
People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are
night doctors two
The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.
night men wind
"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.
night giving church
Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.
night air sky
[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
night men sky
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. Charles Spurgeon
night hands names
When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!
night ballet all-night
I could have danced all night! Alan Jay Lerner
rivers tree lasts
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money. Chief Seattle
rivers mountain suits
We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them. Chief Joseph
rivers clouds woods
We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I love the woods in Sandy, but it's an hour away, so I don't love that. David Giuntoli
rivers advice environmental
You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done. David R. Brower
rivers mind environmental
Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.
rivers environmental way
There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.
rivers safe lasts
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. Buffalo Bill
rivers ambitious limits
The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits. Cesar Pelli
rivers quality stories
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told. Caleb Carr