Stars Quotes - Page 30

• Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, America, People

  "Quotes from congressional steroid hearing". The Associated Press, NBC Sports, March 17, 2005.

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• Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago.

  Tommy Tune

  Meaningful, Media, Years

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• As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I'll be a star on stage, but I'll always hang with the kids.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Beer, Stage

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• The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

  Georg Buchner

  Pain, Eye, Sky

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act IV, 1835.

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• Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Light, Color, Would Be

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• The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.

  Ben Bova

  Strong, Sea, Giving

  Ben Bova (2008). “Mars Life”, p.313, Macmillan

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• At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something that could not have happened before and will never happen again. Few people know how to take advantage of these critical moments, unfortunately, and they often pass unnoticed. When someone does recognize them, however, great things happen in the world.

  Michael Ende

  Unique, People, Doe

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• One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch
  With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars
  Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile
  Coiled and gleaming to the end of space
  And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds
  To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.

  John Ciardi

  Father, Night, Space

  John Ciardi (1969). “The Achievement of John Ciardi: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

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• One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who is proud to have been there during much of the action David Sepkoski describes, I give his description and analysis of the history of paleobiology a five-star rating; to my mind, this actually was the way it was.

  Niles Eldredge

  Character, Greatness, Play

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• For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Daughter, Brother, Giving Up

  "Fictional character: Jerry Mulligan". "An American in Paris", 1951.

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• Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.

  Ian Holloway

  Moon, Sometimes, Aim

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• I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.

  Jessica Stern

  Xenon, Noble, Chlorine

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• I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the heavens as any one may see who reads the names of the stars on a common celestial globe.

  John William Draper

  Religious, Sight, Europe

  "A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe". Book by John William Draper, Harper & brothers, p. 356, 1863.

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• Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

  Ernest Cline

  Life, Perspective, Saws

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.22, Random House

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• I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Rocks, Security Guards, Rock Star

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• The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

  Marabel Morgan

  Night, Breakfast, Married

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• There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.

  Hannah Szenes

  Dark, Night, Light

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• To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right, without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. And I know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest that my heart will be peaceful and calm when I’m laid to my rest.

  Joe Darion

  Running, Dream, Heart

  "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (song) (1965)

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• That the stars are adamant
  everyone understands—
  but I won’t give up seeking joy on each blue wave
  or peace below every gray stone.

  Edith Södergran

  Giving Up, Blue, Joy

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• A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Gun, Hands, Years

  "Hollywood's Responsibility for Smoking Deaths" by Joe Eszterhas, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 2002.

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• After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

  Persis Khambatta

  Agency, Directors, Producers

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• I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

  Persis Khambatta

  Feelings, Great Feelings

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• What we want
  is never simple.
  We move among the things
  we thought we wanted:
  a face, a room, an open book
  and these things bear our names -
  now they want us.
  But what we want appears
  in dreams, wearing disguises.
  We fall past,
  holding out our arms
  and in the morning
  our arms ache.
  We don't remember the dream,
  but the dream remembers us.
  It is there all day
  as an animal is there
  under the table,
  as the stars are there.

  Linda Pastan

  Dream, Morning, Moving

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• And each year now
  we know more, but we know no better —
  what we see in the sky is simply
  the softened gloss of the past sifting
  back to us, and likewise, every atom
  down the body’s shining length
  was inside a star, and will be again.

  Christopher Buckley

  Past, Years, Sky

  Christopher Buckley (1993). “Dark Matter: Poems”, Copper Beech Press

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• Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Rocks, Stones, Ends

  Chrissie Wellington (2012). “A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey”, p.89, Hachette UK

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