Stars Quotes - Page 22

• I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

  John Milius

  War, Pretentious, Heavy

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• The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

  Philip Wylie

  Children, School, Gold

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• We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be associated with undoubted courage and unflinching integrity; at the same time there is no room for pride, self-sufficient pride, that rests solely upon its own capabilities, and refuses to look for the support and countenance of others.--MS 7:91 [MS is the Millenial Star]

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Integrity, Humility, Pride

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• To man, that was in th' evening made,
  Stars gave the first delight;
  Admiring, in the gloomy shade,
  Those little drops of light.

  Edmund Waller

  Men, Light, Littles

  Edmund Waller (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.121

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• And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.

  Thomas Traherne

  Song, Wind, Voice

  Thomas Traherne, “Dumbness”

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• We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Sky, Worry, Looks

  "Interstellar". www.imdb.com. October 26, 2014.

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• J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Heyday, Throwback, Movie Star

  "Interview with Steven Cojocaru, 'People'". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. March 25, 2002.

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• Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Night, Shining, Anxiety

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• If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Hollywood, Film, Bus

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• People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

  Saint Augustine

  Sea, Rivers, People

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• That's how you came here, like a star without a name.  Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.

  Rumi

  Moving, Night, Light

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• The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.

  Heather O'Neill

  Fallen, Ifs

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• The moon twangs its silver strings;
  The river swoons into town;
  The wind beds down in the pines,
  Covers itself with stars.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Moon, Wind, Rivers

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• I like to drop in on people who picked on me in high school or whatever, just out of the blue, and chat with them to see how they think of me now that I'm a big star. Usually they're a lot nicer. After about half an hour, I excuse myself to go to the bathroom, and leave a few DVDs or pictures there. Then when I come out, I say good-bye and leave. Then I call the cops.

  Zach Braff

  School, Thinking, Dvds

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• I could see why someone would want to make a website about me, and my quotes. They are all gold. How many people have written, directed AND starred in their own movies. I just don't know why they would want to put words into my mouth, I mean I did write, direct AND star in a critically acclaimed movie.

  Zach Braff

  Writing, Mean, People

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• Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Men, Wind

  "Fictional character: Oswald Cabal". "Things to Come", www.imdb.com. 1936.

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• Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  War, Would Be, Down And

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• I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

  Jane Yolen

  Book, Believe, Past

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• The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

  Clemence Housman

  Midnight, Half, Lasts

  Clemence Housman (2004). “The Were-Wolf”, p.52, 1st World Publishing

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• It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

  George Gamow

  Men, Years, Atoms

  George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Being Yourself, Unique, Champion

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• At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

  Sadie Frost

  Girl, War, Home

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

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• Cities at daybreak are no one's,
  and have no names.
  And I, too, have no name,
  dawn, the stars growing pale,
  the train picking up speed.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Cities, Names, Dawn

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• Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Past, Destiny

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• It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and compose a poem once in a while. When we open wide our minds and fix our gaze on the universe, we fix our gaze on our own life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Moon, Mind, Important

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