Moon Quotes - Page 35

• For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Blow, Yards

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 206

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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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• When God made the planet, he made the plants, he made the animals, he made the Sun and the Moon, and he made us, and we're all interconnected, and when we disregard, disrespect, or damage any part of it, we do violence against creation.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Animal, Disrespect, Damage

  Source: to.pbs.org

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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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• Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Thinking, Small Steps

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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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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• I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Stars, Animal, Thinking

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• This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.

  Bill Porter

  Flower, Doors, Sky

  Bill Porter (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.328, Counterpoint Press

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• I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beautiful, Jealous, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe better than the Earth can see it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Earth, Greater, Universe

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• There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Distance, Shining, Fame

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• When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Sea, Land

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• Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly, for though we have tread upon the surface of the moon, we have remained bigots and arrogant egotists. Walk softly, for history repeats its self with little provacation.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Spiritual, Technology, Self

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• That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation of girls dreaming of winning Wimbledon or becoming a scientist or going to the moon as an astronaut.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Dream, Winning

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• I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.

  Tom Verlaine

  Thinking, Records, Likes

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• Five centuries from now - barring unimaginable catastrophe - the moon will be developed real estate. There's economic incentive to exploit the moon - the helium-3 will be useful in powering fusion reactors, and the rare earth elements could supplant the limited terrestrial supply of these materials.

  Seth Shostak

  Real, Fusion, Elements

  "Armstrong Wasn’t Columbus" by Seth Shostak, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.

  Jim Tully

  Night, Men, Blue

  Jim Tully (2004). “Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography”, p.167, AK Press

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• I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!

  Brian Blessed

  Space, Training, Want

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• It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

  Neil Armstrong

  Men, Earth, Great Things

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• The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.

  Huineng

  Stars, Fall, Sky

  Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”

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• We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.

  Gene Kranz

  Team, Technology, Men

  "Space Lifeguard: An Interview with Gene Kranz". Interview with Andrew Chaikin, web.archive.org. April 11, 2000.

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• The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Baby, Cat, Night

  Rudyard Kipling (2008). “Just So Stories and the Jungle Book”

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• What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman?

  Origen

  Morning, Stars, Men

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• The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.

  Fred Brooks

  Beach, Team, Ocean

  "Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. July 28, 2010.

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• There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Truth, Long, Three

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