Stars Quotes - Page 38

• When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Night

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• It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

  Tanith Lee

  Night, Rocks, Mountain

  Tanith Lee (2016). “DRINKING SAPPHIRE WINE (Special Edition)”, p.151, BookRix

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• If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.

  Garik Israelian

  Civilization, Elements, Strange

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• We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Taoism, Relative

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• I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

  Barbra Streisand

  Stupid, Ridiculous, Superstar

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• I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Jesus, Mean, Directors

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• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Flower, Night

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• That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from one place to another. I have changed lives. My life now is as black and white as night and day; a life of fierce struggle under the sun, and peaceful reflection under the night sky. I feel as though I am floating on a raft far, far away from any world I ever knew.

  Ted Simon

  Lying, Struggle, Black And White

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• I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships.

  John Fowles

  Men, Thinking, Sea

  John Fowles (2010). “Wormholes”, p.328, Random House

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• I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

  Paul Allen

  Thinking, Sky, Numbers

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• In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era, it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method, and call on Juno, Pallas, Apollo, or Minerva for a name to out new heavenly body. . . . I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus, to a star [Uranus], by which (with to respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.

  William Herschel

  Gratitude, Hero, Philosophical

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• When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Order, Energy, Rotation

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• Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Future, Light, Giving

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• They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Distance, Future, Space

  "Gulliver's Travels". Book by Jonathan Swift. Part III: "A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan". Chapter 3, 1726.

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• Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial stars. They will be able to look up at the night sky and watch the stately procession of the Ports of Earth-the strange new harbors where the ships of space make their planetfalls and their departures.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dream, Inspiration, Future

  Arthur C. Clarke (1968). “the Promise of Space”

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• We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensations of weightlessness and space flight.

  Richard Branson

  Dream, Future, Space

  "Now Virgin to offer trips to space". www.cnn.com. September 27, 2004.

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• Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.

  Texas Guinan

  New York, Squares, Sky

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• How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

  Thomas Cole

  Twilight, Night, Lovely

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• My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

  Kurt Russell

  Teamwork, Years, League

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• Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

  Sue Wicks

  College, America, Television

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• It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Light, Way, Vapor

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• I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not hot enough. The critics lay themselves open to an obvious retort: we tell them to go and find a hotter place.

  Arthur Eddington

  Hot, Enough, Retorts

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• The number of the fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It is therefore decidedly a great feat to add to their number, and to set distinctly before the eyes other stars in myriads, which have never been seen before, and which surpass the old, previously known stars in number more than ten times.

  Galileo Galilei

  Eye, Numbers, Sight

  "The Essential Galileo".

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• When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole.

  Loren Acton

  Long, Awful, Way

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• I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.

  Paget Brewster

  Mind, Criminals, Cards

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