Moon Quotes - Page 6

• You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

  Toni Morrison

  Sky, Choices, Way

  "A Writer Not Fusty, if Addicted to Mystery". www.nytimes.com. October 05, 2005.

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• Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.

  Shan Sa

  Stars, Axes, Earth

  Shan Sa (2009). “Empress: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Degrees, Speech

  Walter Scott (1826). “Poetical Works Complete in One Volume”, p.352

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• Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

  Joaquin Miller

  Wall, Purple, Broken

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• You're not the center of the universe, you know.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Maturity, Center Of The Universe, Knows

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• When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.

  Bob Denver

  Islands, Should Have, Rockets

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• First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Men, Space

  Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

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• Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It’s all just a use of your thinking.

  Michael Nesmith

  Thinking, Race, People

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Trying, Clients, Ritz

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• Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

  Karl Kraus

  Dog, Ironic, Sentimental

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• If this is how you’re going to react, I’ll freak out more often.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Black, Freak

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• You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 26, 2015

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• After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?...I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn’t want you anymore. The most absurd, ridiculous concept—as if there were any way that I could exist without needing you!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Eye, Want

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• I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Looks, Marie

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Promise, Goes On, Lasts

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• I thought I'd explained it clearly before. Bella, I can't live in a world where you don't exist.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, World, I Can

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• The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

  Confucius

  Failure, Reality, Looks

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• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, Autumn, Night

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• I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

  Anton Chekhov

  Husband, Sky, Giving

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

  Bette Davis

  Movie, Inspiring, Stars

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• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Hurt, Drinking, Food

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• Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon

  Stephenie Meyer

  Black, Bigs, Jacob

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• Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Morning, Stars, Children

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• It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Salmon, Action, Justification

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