Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Noyes

Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon....

Alfred Noyes

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.

Albert Einstein

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Albert Einstein

The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.

Dick Gregory

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

Amartya Sen

Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now.

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.

Dylan Thomas

Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun

Donna Tartt

When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

Allen Ginsberg

I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.

Andrea Dworkin

Does the sun ask itself, "Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?" No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, "What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?" No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, "Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?" No, it burns, it shines.

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

Adam Young

If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

Alec Guinness

That's no moon. It's a space station

Daniel Quinn

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

e. e. cummings

the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

e. e. cummings

Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

e. e. cummings

notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening

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

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.

Albert Camus

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

Czeslaw Milosz

A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples And grow a fair amount of nettles.

D. H. Lawrence

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

D. H. Lawrence

There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.

D. H. Lawrence

The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. . . . When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.

Conor Oberst

I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone

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.