Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The sky was filled with fat stars, swollen from the long night. The moon had risen briefly and then slipped out of… — Juan Rulfo Copy Share Image
The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“And there was the moon. A warm and visible greeting, a beacon of relief. Full, unshrouded, its edges crisp. It looked like… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can… — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
You know what the best part of the stars is?" "What's that?" "They're the same no matter what sky you're standing under.… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
You are my heart, my soul,” he said, his arms going around my waist and holding me tightly. “As you are mine,”… — Keri Arthur Copy Share Image
“A lofty breeze rushed by, threatening to brush him over the ridge. He looked with hardened eyes off into the East as… — Evan Grinde Copy Share Image
“For it is through the darkness of the evening that we are able to see the stars. Without this darkness, we would… — Jennifer Sodini Copy Share Image
“9. The Moon Cannot Be Stolen Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the… — Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps Copy Share Image
As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
When I finally had the chance to make my childhood dream a reality - as a co-founder and chairman of Moon Express… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
“I turn my telescope to Barnards Loop and M42, glowing in Orions sword. Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the smoke from the factories and riverboats and trains would obscure the night sky entirely. But the town's industrial breath was… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good...… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars,… — Grace Noll Crowell Copy Share Image
“And so, as the stars came out, Miles took up his basket and made his way in the moonlight to the river,… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
We need to open the frontier between the Earth and Moon to large-scale human activities, we need to establish human outposts and… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you look up in the night sky and see this light that's flashing colors, that's Sirius. It's a star system, and… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
“When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
There is a shop close to where I live, outside which, on certain nights of the month - I've no idea if… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The sun of that chilishness goes on shining even when the larger bodies of hotter stars have risen to smelt you and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The sun was crouched on its haunches over the Pioneers. The mountains were both purple and brown, the angle of light hitting… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
“On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times… — Charles A. Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“Was the late Neil Armstrong, whose footprint remains intact on the windless moon, happier than the nameless hunter-gatherer who 30,000 years ago… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image