Stars Quotes - Page 34

• The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Moving, Tree, Birth

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• Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

  Rod Laver

  Kids, Play, Yesterday

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• Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

  Noel Coward

  Knights, Play, Dying

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• From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fate, Men, Light

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement

  Denis Waitley

  Goal, Achievement, Ceilings

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• Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.

  Michael A. Walsh

  Powerful, Destiny, Cracks

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• For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.

  Jean-Marie Lustiger

  Yellow, Speech, Nominations

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• Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Song: Dreamland, Album: Party Doll And Other Favorites, 1999

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• Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' tits on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Eye, Passion, Dark

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• Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

  Edwin Starr

  Competition, Healthy, Nine

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• I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star has fully prepared her to take control of our nuclear arsenal.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Reality, Eight

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• The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Space, Groups, Sun

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• It was a fine fall morning in Paris, crisp and clear, and Benji was quite full of himself, cavorting near the fountain, playing with the children who had inexplicably materialized out of nowhere at the first whiff of a movie star. Their faces radiated and they took turns gently stroking his head. Those Benji chose to favor with a big sloppy lick exploded with laughter, and one young girl ran to her mother, screeching in French that she would never wash her face again.

  Joe Camp

  Funny, Girl, Mother

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• Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. [When you lose one blessing, anticipate, look and work for a silver lining and when you find it, you will have a new grateful perspective.]

  Violeta Parra

  Grateful, Blessing, Perspective

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• Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

  Liv Tyler

  Girl, Mom, Queens

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• You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.

  Tom Waits

  Blue, Feelings, Lost

  Song: Little Trip to Heaven, Album: Closing Time, 2006

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• There's no night without stars.

  Andre Norton

  Gratitude, Night

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gratitude, Grateful, Clouds

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• With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

  William Wordsworth

  Boredom, Restless, Bores

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.784, Wordsworth Editions

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• Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.

  Herbert Turnbull

  Science, May, Helping

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• Do you know that fat little guy from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander. And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of 'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens. If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken.

  Dan Mathews

  Animal, Play, Kfc

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• I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.

  Kanye West

  Song, Light, Looks

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars

  Francisco Largo Caballero

  Common Sense, Sun, Ifs

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• The story of American wrestling at its greatest is the story of its most illustrious champion, Frank Gotch. He dominated the field. Through his extraordinary ability, he gained for wrestling many converts. It was Gotch's victories over the hitherto invincible Hackenschmidt that made him the post popular mat star in America and started a movement among college men to take up wrestling.

  Nat Fleischer

  Wrestling, College, Men

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• Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.

  Pliny the Elder

  Flower, Food, Air

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