Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry Mancini

It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came to me. I wrote [“Moon River”] in half an hour.

Henry Miller

There are moments when the elixir of life rises to such over−brimming splendor that the soul spills over. In the seraphic smile of the Madonnas the soul is seen to flood the psyche. The moon of the face becomes full; the equation is perfect. A minute, a half−minute, a second later, the miracle has passed. Something intangible , something inexplicable, was given out-and received.

Cat Stevens

Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon

Cat Stevens

I'm being followed by a moon shadow Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow... Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light ...and are you going to stay the night?

Samuel Coleridge

The moving moon went up the sky, / And nowhere did abide: / Softly she was going up, / And a star or two beside.

Jim Butcher

Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In the middle of this town, you’d have a dozen people dead every time the full moon came around. What’s going on?” “A dozen people are dying every time the full moon comes around.

Jean Alesi

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Jay Kay

I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!

Buzz Aldrin

Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

Buzz Aldrin

The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

Buzz Aldrin

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.