Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Ellison

When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn't married!

Jeffrey Kluger

Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

Jean Ingelow

You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

Jacques Yves Cousteau

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

Jacqueline Novogratz

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

Jennifer Grant

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, shoot again.

Jeff Buckley

There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away

George Whitefield

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

Elon Musk

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

Elon Musk

It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

Jason Schwartzman

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

Ezra Cornell

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

Erwin Chargaff

You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Gregory Maguire

The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

Ian McLagan

When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

Gena Showalter

The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.

Eric Carle

Papa, please get the moon for me.

Gary Shteyngart

The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.

Gabriel Byrne

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

Frank Borman

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

George W. Bush

When I say drop your pants and show me the moon, I'm not just whistling Dixie!

George Carlin

I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon.

Garth Nix

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

Garth Stein

The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.

Garth Stein

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.

Fernando Pessoa

What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

Fernando Pessoa

I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

Federico Garcia Lorca

What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.

Ernest Holmes

I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.