She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power.… — Michio Kaku 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
Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains. — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. Theres evidence of water on Mars and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“We are alive and we resonate with idea of life elsewhere, but only careful accumulation and assessment of the evidence can tell… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere… — Nicholas Kurti Copy Share Image
Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back,… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion… — Horace Copy Share Image
The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It's quite possible there's as much lightning on Venus as on Earth. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image