Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jennifer Ellison

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

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.

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

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

Thomas Fuller

You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

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.

Buzz Aldrin

Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.

Buzz Aldrin

In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or whatever seems appropriate. We've got millions and millions of people who want to go into space, who are willing to pay. When you figure in the payload potential of customers, everything changes.

Buzz Aldrin

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

Buzz Aldrin

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

Buzz Aldrin

Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.

Buzz Aldrin

To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.

Buzz Aldrin

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

Buzz Aldrin

Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.

Buzz Aldrin

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

Buzz Aldrin

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.