Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

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.

Alan Watts

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

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.

Alan Hovhaness

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.

Alan Bean

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

I can remember walking on the moon.

Alan Bean

The moon is very rugged.

Alan Bean

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

Alan Bean

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

Chogyam Trungpa

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

China Mieville

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

Camille Pissarro

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

Charles Wesley

A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.

Charles Wesley

Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!

Aimee Bender

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

Arthur Rimbaud

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

Natsuki Takaya

We shall go wild with fireworks...And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness. We don't have any fireworks that big

Denise Levertov

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

Charles Dickens

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Charles Dickens

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Charles Spurgeon

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Charles Spurgeon

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Charles Spurgeon

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

Charles Spurgeon

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

Alan Watts

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

Alan Watts

Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?

Alan Watts

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.