Quotes about star
stars thinking giving
A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression. Arthur Eddington
stars men important
Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. ... [K]nowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
stars science hypothesis
An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.
stars atheism matter
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
stars future simple
It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
stars flower petals
You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
stars important looks
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
stars men names
Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world. Arthur Conan Doyle
stars firefly spirit
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
stars eye heaven
Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. Arthur C. Clarke
stars men challenges
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.
stars thinking clouds
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
stars lying moon
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.
stars patriotic men
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
stars going-out overhead
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
stars moon goal
The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.
stars children thinking
Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.
stars truth destiny
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
stars voice one-day
The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.
stars children thinking
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind. Anton Chekhov
stars pops shock
It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star. Belinda Carlisle
stars class done
Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life. Bella Freud
stars nice print
I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.
stars fun guests
When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun. Bellamy Young
stars one-day littles
Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael. Barry Sonnenfeld
stars uncles war
I find that with fantasy, you lose yourself in it a lot. It's great to be able to go into a dark theater or turn off the lights in your house and just get sucked into this world. I remember watching Star Wars when I was a little kid when they did the re-release of all the originals. I couldn't even read yet but my uncle took me and he would read me the opening as the words were coming up on the screen. I just remember being so sucked into that and thinking, "I want to be Luke Skywalker." Austin Butler
stars sky people
People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky. Arundhati Roy
stars may would-be
I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one. Diane Duane
stars cutting paper
I could cut a star out of paper and drop it. Diana Wynne Jones
stars thinking wind
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. Diane Ackerman
stars lying secret
We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I would say, "I have a secret to tell you." And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly, you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.
stars thinking
I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star. Desi Arnaz
stars coyotes want
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult? Derrick Jensen