Stars Quotes - Page 10

• My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Inspirational, Basketball, Play

  7 Copy quote

• Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

  Boethius

  Heart, Order, People

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.58, Harvard University Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Thinking, Fire, Clouds

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Expedition to Earth”, p.195, RosettaBooks

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

  Hank Aaron

  Games, Shoes, Rose

  25 Copy quote

• Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.

  Vikram Seth

  Journey, Doors, Joy

  Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.498, Penguin Books India

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

  Homer

  Rocks, Rock Star, Knows

  6 Copy quote

• When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

  Ovid

  Eye, Animal, Men

  10 Copy quote

• Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

  Piet Mondrian

  Sea, Sky, Unity

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itself…the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.

  Poul Anderson

  Believe, Fall, Dark

  12 Copy quote

• Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the dark void, like an infinitely tenuous smoke rising from an extinguished fire. Upon these motes, these gigantic worlds, the ultimate populations had created here and there with their artificial lighting a pale glow, invisible even from the innermost ring of lifeless planets.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Dark, Fire, Here And There

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.404, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Snub end of a dismal year,
  deep in the dwarf orchard,
  The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars,
  I stand in the dark and answer to
  My life, this shirt I want to take off,
  which is on fire . . .

  Charles Wright

  Dark, Fire, Dwarves

  Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

  Carol Alt

  Careers, Want, Actresses

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Power, Greatness, Men

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.12, Vintage

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.

  Eric Carle

  Children, Artist, Years

  52 Copy quote

• A star for every State, and a State for every star.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  States

  Speech on Boston Common, 27 August 1862

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dark, Shining, Enough

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Compassion, Thinking

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

  Christa McAuliffe

  Space, Reaching, Reaching For The Stars

  "Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986". Time magazine, content.time.com. February 10, 1986.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• From what we cannot hold the stars are made.

  W. S. Merwin

  Made

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. June 26, 2009.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

  Jane Fonda

  Sex, Roles, Realization

  8 Copy quote

• A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Fall, Missing, Relaxation

  10 Copy quote

• It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sex, Acting, World

  12 Copy quote

• Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

  Douglas Adams

  Sister, Time, Brother

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.706, Pan Macmillan

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Reflection

  7 Copy quote

• We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

  John Daniel

  Life, Tides, Mystery

  4 Copy quote