Moon Quotes - Page 34

• I secretly assumed, as poets do,
  The duty on me to define the moon.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Poet, Duty

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.65, University of Texas Press

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• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  Growing Up, War, Moving

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• Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

  Augustus Hare

  Eye, Deny, Malice

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• We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

  Germaine Greer

  Tides, Harmony, Ripple

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• Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.

  Dogen

  Reflection, Sky, Water

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• I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Kids, Numbers, People

  "Death-Defying Skydiver Felix Baumgartner 'It's Never Been about the Thrills'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 1, 2012.

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• Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beach, Reality, Men

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

  Jack Campbell

  Technology, Climbing, Years

  John G. Hemry, Jack Campbell (2000). “Stark's War”, p.73, Penguin

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• Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

  Nick Turse

  Real, War, Blue

  "American War Versus Real War" by Nick Turse, www.motherjones.com. July 13, 2010.

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• When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

  Ian McLagan

  Pals, Bumps, Keith

  "Ian McLagan's Song For A Muse". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. June 20, 2014.

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• I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps,
  Of two dark moons.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Dark, Two, Shadow

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• I saw it written and I saw it say
  Pink moon is on its way
  And none of you stand so tall
  Pink Moon gonna get you all

  Nick Drake

  Way, Saws, Tall

  Song: Pink Moon

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• The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sea, Ebb And Flow

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.599, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Light, Existence

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• Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Silence, Owl, Midnight

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• On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Earth, Admire

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• The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Thinking, Space, Hands

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In a Bloomberg poll, 88% of respondents said that Wall Street bonuses should either be banned outright or taxed at 50%. Just 7% said they should remain an incentive. To put that 7% figure in perspective, 6% of Americans believe the moon landings were a hoax; 7% believe Elvis lives; 24% believe that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim; 41% believe in ESP; and 48% believe in creationism. Americans will believe anything, it seems-except the idea that incentivizing bankers at systemically important institutions to take big risks makes any sense at all.

  Felix Salmon

  Wall, Believe, Ideas

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• We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Song, Hymns, Toes

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon.

  George Carlin

  Offering, Special, Firsts

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• I'm not a big drinker and I don't smoke either. I've only been drunk a few times, but I did moon my friend once. I had knickers on! I'll leave the real mooning to the boys.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Real, Boys, Drunk

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Actually, there was one sequence but Liv didn't put this in but at the end of the movie, we ran out of money. Literally, ran out. And I couldn't make payroll. So I emptied all our accounts to make payroll. We were kinda like, "What do we do?" Then out of the blue, we were saved by Gucci. So it's always been like, you just gotta reach for the stars and hopefully the moon will catch you.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Stars, Blue, Like You

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Ernest Holmes

  Imagination, Inspired, Wave

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.103, Penguin

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• The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

  Neil Armstrong

  Goal, Interesting, Challenges

  Interview at The New Space Race, August 2007.

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• The customer deserves to receive exactly what we have promised to produce - a clean room, a hot cup of coffee, a nonporous casing, a trip to the moon on goassamer wings.

  Phil Crosby

  Coffee, Wings, Hot

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