There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Outside in the barnlot he looked up and the pale moon was directly over him and all-encompassing. It appeared to be lowering… — William Gay Copy Share Image
The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“The rain comes through their thin cotton clothes against their muscles. Alice sweeps back her wet hair. A sudden flinging of sheet… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is a very naive view to think that the resources and conditions on earth would last forever. Our race has to… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“…the same kind of answers the stars are always trying to give us, she thought, when we look up and up at… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“I am glad I didn't understand, because I have rarely felt joy like that, and assurance. It was like one of those… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
That the north star is the brightest in the night sky. I'd guess about 9 out of 10 people think this. But… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We… — Brewster Kahle Copy Share Image
When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“I'll think about you every day. Part of me is scared that there will come a time when you don't feel the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The voice was low and tinged with a hint of Scotland. It would have caused Alexia to shiver and think primal monkey… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If you try to imagine as nearly as you can what an amount of misery, pain, and suffering of every kind the… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“I want to buy designer sunglasses and change my name to The Lunar Child III. It would make me a better lover,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“I am born as the sun, But then turn into the moon, As my blonde hairs turn Grayish-white and fall to The… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“So now there really are little green men on the moon?” “These people weren’t official SETI. They didn’t understand the data at… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience,… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it.… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
You’re going to share a Moon Pie? Now? You know you can’t get any more of those until you go back to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“As Paul Hawken keenly observed, Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
![“Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.” quote by Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96d/galileo-galilei-2377_action_among-the-great-men-who-have-philosophiz_131150.jpg)
![“As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. . . . Who would have believed that a huge ocean could be crossed more peacefully and safely than the the narrow expanse of the Adriatic, the Baltic Sea or the English…” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/068/johannes-kepler-4278_adapted_as-soon-as-somebody-demonstrates-the-art_2515437.jpg)
![“The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the…” quote by Neil Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd0/neil-armstrong-5298_boots_the-moon-surface-is-fine-and-powdery-i-c_1350125.jpg)
