Famous Quotes & Sayings

e. e. cummings

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Duncan Sheik

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

Anais Nin

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

Anais Nin

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

Ann Aguirre

He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.

Anaxagoras

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

Anaxagoras

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

Anthony de Mello

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

Anna Magnani

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Anne Sexton

For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.

Anne Rice

...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.

Anne Rice

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

Anita Desai

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night.

Anthony Horowitz

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

Alice Sebold

The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.

We'll show up and play anywhere. We'd play on the moon if they ever get a shuttle going.

Doug Liman

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

Don DeLillo

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

Douglas William Jerrold

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Dick Gregory

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

David Berg

The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour!

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.....

Danny Devito

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

Danny Boyle

If the American taxpayer knew how much they paid per person to put Neil Armstrong on the moon they would never have paid it. It was hidden from them deliberately because the costs were astronomical.

Cole Porter

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

Clay Walker

How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes?

Colin Farrell

I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.

Dante Alighieri

When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon

Darren Criss

I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

Confucius

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

Dana Rohrabacher

And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying American dollar bills as has ever been devised by man.