Astronomy Quotes · Page 79

I have a thing about stars, they are my favourite motif.

— Holly Willoughby

The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

— Walt Disney

“Heart of lovers Littered with stars In glittering moons Mirrored their lips”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“A sky full of stars and he was staring at her. —ATTICUS”

— Atticus Poetry

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

— Leonard Cohen

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Two years in a child's life is the distance between stars.”

— Nancy Horan

“Even the most beautiful of the stars are taken for granted night after night.”

— Veronika Jensen

Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still

— Tycho Brahe

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of…

— Nick Sagan

“If indeed [nature] has no greater aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like…

— Annie Dillard

Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance."

— Gan De

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I…

— Dolly Parton

My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but…

— Nick Frost

“Stars exist at great distances from us not to limit our life's journey, but to allow our dreams of visiting them to…

— Val Edward Simone

“Stars lookin at our planet watching entropy and pain And maybe start to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass…

— Switchfoot

When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their…

— Stanislaw Lem

“A star dawns in the night. Life through life, blood through blood to shine its light. Through love he was given the…

— Nora Roberts

In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to…

— Arthur Koestler

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that…

— Andre Malraux

“We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making…

— Manguel Alberto

Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be…

— Seth Shostak

There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to…

— Thornton Wilder

“The sky was incredible that night, the moon nearly full and the stars littering the sky like tossed stones.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

In our quest to reach the stars we must first learn how to balance on our toes

— Brandon R. King

“Six Stars,' he exclaimed. 'Finding the right words is hard!”

— Louise Marley

When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky You can bet that he's doing it for some doll.

— Frank Loesser

“A beau­ti­ful girl in a love­ly world Touches the stars and her wings unfurl.”

— L. S. Hartfield

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle…

— Macy Gray

There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

— Carl Sagan

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

— Anonymous

I've never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

— Mr. T

No matter how small a star appears in the sky from far away, never underestimate how brightly it can shine.

— Pacifiersucker

Go out tonight and look at the stars. And allow yourself to dream.

— Rick Tumlinson

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos.”

— Carl Sagan

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

— Ann Druyan

Don't promise me the moon or the stars, just promise me you'll stay under them with me.

— Anonymous

This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.

— Darcey Bussell

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still…

— Brian May