When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“a tangle of sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfumes of white blossoms somewhere near,… — kate chopin Copy Share Image
“Just then, a singly firefly flashes its light, then another. Within a minute the darkness is filled with fireflies, twinkling their silent… — Dominique Paul Copy Share Image
“The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Moonlight faded after a time, and with it that distant specter of the mountain; then the triple mischiefs of darkness, cold, and… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to imagine what changed after that first bite of forbidden fruit, but it must have been a little like the… — Jacquelle Crowe Copy Share Image
If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Much of traditional magic takes place by the light of the Moon. In the night world we are closer to the unconscious,… — Vivianne Crowley Copy Share Image
I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love.… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits--on the French coast the light Gleams… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It's a punishment… — Peter Pan Copy Share Image
No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was on this boat in the middle of the ocean scuba diving for this film I did, and I was with… — Gemma Arterton Copy Share Image
What we do with Him now, we will be for all eternity. In His eternity He came to die our death and… — Charles S. Price Copy Share Image
So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“In the crook of the crescent moon sits the Holy Lady, with strong muscles and a merciful heart. She kicks her her… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“am recalling now how during that last spring (forever) we walked together at full moon, overcome by the soft dazed air of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind,… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Lady Maccon.” “By George, Boots! How the deuce can you possibly tell that there is Lady Maccon?” queried the other top-hated gentleman.… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Certain miracles that I beheld there have haunted my memory ever since: a gray April morning of sirocco, when the almond blossoms,… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
“It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I'm 9, 10, and I'm watching the Apollo astronauts go to the moon. We're sitting on the floor of a school, and… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ...… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song.… — Felix Houphouet-Boigny Copy Share Image
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to… — Benny Hinn Copy Share Image
If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“And now, I needed the stars. Not the explosive ones that hurled out tongues of gas and, along with gravity, hammered out… — William David Hannah Copy Share Image
The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
“Momentarily, through one good eye, he could see the moon. Something below moved and he span around to where he could see… — Stephen Craig Copy Share Image
