Stars Quotes - Page 9

• I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Thinking, Fire, Clouds

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Expedition to Earth”, p.195, RosettaBooks

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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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• When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

  Ovid

  Eye, Animal, Men

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• Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

  Homer

  Rocks, Rock Star, Knows

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• Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

  Piet Mondrian

  Sea, Sky, Unity

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dreamer, World, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.32, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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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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• A star for every State, and a State for every star.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  States

  Speech on Boston Common, 27 August 1862

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• Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wall, Sleep, Night

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: Stevenson's Vol. 5”, p.41, VM eBooks

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• Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.

  Mary Oliver

  Fall, Snow, Tree

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• I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.

  J. J. Abrams

  Loyalty, Knowing, Want

  "J.J. Abrams: I Turned Down 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you need? Suddenly you see a flower and the flower sends its perfume to you. What else could you need? What more could you want? The whole sky goes on filling with stars, the whole life becomes a celebration because now everything is beautiful. Without expectation everything fulfills - just to breathe is enough, just to breathe is such a bliss.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

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• The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.

  Amit Ray

  Moon, Expression, Meditation

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• The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Boys, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• I wait.  Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight.  I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness.  Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

  Edward Abbey

  Loneliness, Night, Waiting

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.15, University of Arizona Press

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• I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.

  Ice Cube

  Inspirational, Basketball, Games

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• My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Inspirational, Basketball, Play

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• Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.

  Michael Dolan

  Beauty, Eye, Shooting

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• Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

  Boethius

  Heart, Order, People

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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