Stars Quotes - Page 15

• You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

  Martin Amis

  Movie, Actors, Movie Star

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• 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

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• The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

  Joan Didion

  Clouds, Air, Wind

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.157, Zola Books

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• Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And she had always lived somehow with that dream. And that is why, despite the fact that she became one of the most unusual and outstanding stars of all time, she herself was never satisfied. When she came to New York, she began to perceive the possibilities of really accomplishing her dream, of being an actress.

  Lee Strasberg

  Dream, New York, Way

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• 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

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• I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

  Poul Anderson

  Book, Writing, Two

  "Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction", www.locusmag.com. April 1997.

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• Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

  Poul Anderson

  Wise, Fall, Dark

  Poul Anderson (2014). “The Broken Sword”, p.234, Open Road Media

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• In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

  Poul Anderson

  Personality, Machines, Harvest

  "Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction", www.locusmag.com. April 1997.

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• 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

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• Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star kills. He is greater than those bright blind companies. For though in them there is incalculable potentiality, in him there is achievement, small, but actual. Too soon, seemingly, he comes to his end. But when he is done he will not be nothing, not as though he had never been; for he is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Men, Done, Spirit

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• 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.

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• And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

  Petrarch

  Ocean, Men, Rivers

  Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, as translated by James Harvey Robinson (1898), April 26, 1336.

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• It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

  Brian De Palma

  Tomorrow

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.178, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dark, Shining, Enough

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• 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

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• For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

  Amanda Palmer

  Motivation, Inspiration, Artist

  "How the Internet Is Changing Music (Feat. Amanda Palmer on Vocals)" by Rob Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2013.

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• The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.

  Kalpana Chawla

  Moving, Sunset, Sky

  AsianWeek, February 7-13, 2003.

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• 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

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• When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Morning, Fall, Heart

  'The American Flag' in New York Evening Post, 29 May 1819 (attributed also to Fitz-Greene Halleck)

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Spring, Flower

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, White, America

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• The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Leadership, Business, Inspiration

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• Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Buddhist

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• 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

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• 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

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