It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freeways. They're so… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“And when the sun sets...then the night magic spreads out above your head; worlds and universes a-borning and a-dying—stars and planets and… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of my early twenties focusing on other people as opposed to myself. Being madly in love with people… — Oliver Sim Copy Share Image
I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
“The sunset was that long, achingly beautiful balance of stillness in which the sun seemed to hover like a red balloon above… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care:… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in… — Democritus Copy Share Image
A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“Look tonight at the stars. Let them overwhelm you in the postures of their bright dance. Face the vastness which they dot… — Robert H. Barlow Copy Share Image
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“ The Luna Maria The moon has two distinct terrains, the very old highlands, and the younger, smoother maria. The maria are… — Margot Berwin Copy Share Image
Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Farther from the sun, a father and son. The soft moon chasing after, the sun running away; a lunacy of circles that… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Clear Moon' is more... clear I guess! It's more round-sounding and it's slightly gentler. 'Ocean Roar' is more challenging and weird and… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy… The beautiful light will continue to shine on us… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
“From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“And this feeling of moving with the earth was somewhat like the feeling of being in the ocean, out in the ocean… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Look at the stars,” said Tim. “Don’t you ever wonder what they’re for?” The Night was an open book of constellations. “They’re… — Toby Forward Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the Moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“He watched the early light of the new moon glint fretfully on the river, now silver slivers, now darkness, as the night… — Pauline Gedge Copy Share Image
So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
