Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Mitchell

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

Edgar Allan Poe

Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.

Edgar Allan Poe

Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

Edgar Allan Poe

If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.

Edgar Allan Poe

...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river...

Edgar Allan Poe

Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

And then we'll go from there and start stretching him out.

Anything we want to do offensively he can do, ... That's why he's our starter this week.

Another step for the Federation, ... Star Trek.

After 20 or so starts I think he'll get stronger.

Allen Iverson

Everything isn't starting out well, but you have to look at it like we can turn it around.

There's still no timetable. We're taking it start by start.

Right now walls should start going up the first week of November,

Pretty soon, we had to start turning down donations.

Quarterback is wide open. We don't know who's going to start Friday.

Herb Kohl

As I said to him upstairs, 'The real work starts now,'

Kim Clijsters

At the start of the match, I just had to find my footwork a little bit,

Mike Babcock

At the start of the game, we weren't used to that level. They were really quick.

They're starting to get the feel of winning.

Edgerrin James

They said they will do what it takes to start winning.

A lot of stars come to this very quickly, at a young age,

A lot of stars and moons have aligned.

You're truly a star after you've been able to do whatever it is that you do for at least three years,

You're starting to think of me as a writer of choral works, right? That's all right. I like that.

You're starting to be real competitive, aren't you?

Jeff Overton

You start thinking about it a little bit.

You start dwindling the on-market supply, which complicates the situation.

You should see some structures start going up at the end of June.

This is a terrific opportunity, and I can't wait to really start contributing.

This is a surprisingly strong start of the year.

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Brandon Siler

They did their part. Now it's our turn. It's time to start winning championships again.

Sam Hornish

You don't think about things like that. The day I start thinking about those things is the day I stop racing. I want to think about winning not worry about whether I'm going to get hurt.