Moon Quotes - Page 39

• When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Men, Eight, Years

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2012.

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• As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Space, Mars

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• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Airplane, Thinking

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• I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally.

  Colin Farrell

  Mean, Heaven, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Men, Pants, Firsts

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• Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Long, Goal, Mars

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• I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Wine, Thinking, Interesting

  "The Moon Communion Of Buzz Aldrin That NASA Didn’t Want To Broadcast". Article by Yasmine Hafiz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

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• The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.

  Dean Koontz

  Stars, Night, Light

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.136, Bantam

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• One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

  Angela Carter

  Night, Sight, Self

  Angela Carter (1971). “Love: a novel”

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• It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

  Terry Pratchett

  Piano, Yellow, Sound

  "Sourcery (Discworld, Book 5)". Book by Terry Pratchett, May 26, 1988.

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• So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?" "You could say that." "Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it." "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.

  Cassandra Clare

  Humor, Car, Littles

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• The moon just crapped the bed.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Bed

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• So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

  Leonard Cohen

  Stars, Infidelity, Want

  Song: Death Of A Ladies' Man, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

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• I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Men, Mind, Looks

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• Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sky, Black, Tonight

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• Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Space Flight, Fleeing

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• If there'd been an astronaut on the moon right then, I'm sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too... the only one who could.

  Lucy Christopher

  Down And, Astronaut, Ifs

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• The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man, and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Stars, Night

  'Manfred' (1817) act 3, sc. 4, l. 2

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• I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Eye, Thinking

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Stars, Flower, Taken

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• I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Light, Saws

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.141, Orchises Press

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• Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Volcanoes, White, Valleys

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Heart, Sadness

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.561, Macmillan

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• WindClan has traveled a long time. It's nearly a moon since ShadowClan drove us from our home. The weather is turning colder, and leaf-bare will be here soon. We have no choice but to stay.

  Erin Hunter

  Home, Weather, Long

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• StarClan may go where they please, they have betrayed SkyClan. From this day on, I will have nothing more to do with our warrior ancestors. StarClan allowed the Twolegs to destroy our home. They look down on us now, and let the moon go on shining while you drive us out. They said there would always be five Clans in the forest, but they lied. SkyClan will never look to the stars again.

  Erin Hunter

  Stars, Home, Warrior

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