Moon Quotes - Page 20

• Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

  Anna Magnani

  Hands, Jewels, Feelings

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• Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Drawing, People, Perspective

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• I was at a Golden Globes after party and Channing f**king Tatum came up to me, and his stunning missus, Jenna Dewan. And they said, 'We call each other moon of my life and my sun and stars’ and all that. I was like, 'I cannot contain this. Please, can we all have something sexual together? You're both beautiful. Even just a hug'.

  Emilia Clarke

  Beautiful, Kings, Stars

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• I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry.

  Mary Ruefle

  Night, Lyric Poetry, Embodiment

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.12, Wave Books

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• I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

  Jill Ker Conway

  Sky, Earth, Sun

  Jill Ker Conway (2011). “The Road from Coorain”, p.235, Vintage

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• The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness; his was the sun, hers the moon; his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals; he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Brother, Inspiration, Animal

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• We've got to reinvest in space travel.  We should have never left the moon.

  Ray Bradbury

  Should Have, Space, Left

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• Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Needs, Knows

  "President Obama’s JFK Moment" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

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• Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Moving, Sky

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• In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons where we can send continuous numbers of people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Numbers, People, Mars

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• Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Real, People, Twenties

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

  Buzz Aldrin

  Way, Activity

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

  Buzz Aldrin

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• Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.

  Shirley Jackson

  Horse, Rose, Today

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Beautiful, Black And White, Love Is

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• My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

  Oscar Wilde

  Saint, Worship, Salome

  Oscar Wilde (2003). “Salome”, p.172, Editions du héron

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• Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Looks, Rising, Might

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.65, OUP Oxford

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• The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.

  Lewis Nordan

  Morning, Rain, Autumn

  Lewis Nordan (2003). “Wolf Whistle”, p.149, Algonquin Books

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• Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the planet, and soon we wont stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.

  Jason Silva

  Moving, Novelty, Caves

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• Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

  Coolio

  Fun, Life Is Too Short, Sun

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• In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Sea, Space, Found

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• We live by the sun, we feel by the moon, we love by the stars. We live in all things, all things live in us.

  Stephanie Kaza

  Stars, Sun, Feels

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• We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dark, Light, Sides

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Boys, Doctors, Becoming A Doctor

  "Olivier Theyskens On Creativity & Commerce, Obama & Middleton, And Being Naked". Interview with Blue Carreon, www.forbes.com. October 24, 2011.

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• The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

  Ben Parr

  Technology, Space, People

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