Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.

Jack Gilbert

We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.

Jack Gilbert

We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

Guy Maddin

I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.

Georges Simenon

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

Harry Caray

Would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs?

Harry Caray

We all know the moon isn't made out of blue cheese...but if it was made out of bbq spare ribs would you eat it?

Harry Chapin

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

Everything was setting up like that tournament. The water temperature, the moon phase, the time of the year, everything was the same.

Thomas Fuller

You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

The stars the moon and the sun...so old, so wise. Think of what they've seen

The sun is liberated, and the moon is liberated; the God-realized being is pure and untouched.

Jules Verne

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

Giles Andreae

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.

Harrison Salisbury

I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.

Horace

Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

Herman Melville

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

Herman Melville

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

Henry David Thoreau

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

Henry David Thoreau

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

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.