Starry Quotes

120 quotes by 90 authors

If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When… — Tom Stoppard
And I, infinitesimaÂl being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled… — Pablo Neruda
To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing… — Georges Bataille
Know why people run marathons? â€¦Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles,… — Christopher McDougall
Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with… — Rabindranath Tagore
We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up… — Paulo Coelho
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music — Henning Mankell
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all… — Tonya Hurley
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all. — Vincent Van Gogh
And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl… — Robin Jones Gunn
The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me… — Lord Byron
Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them… — Edith Wharton
Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important. — Rick Riordan
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence. — Rabindranath Tagore
We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the… — Pablo Neruda
The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is… — Thomas Paine
Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try. — Ira Gershwin
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting,… — Joni Mitchell

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