Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.

John Muir

The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.

John von Neumann

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

Ted Cruz

Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?

Theodore Hesburgh

The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.

Theodore Dreiser

Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay; Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming On the banks of the Wabash, far away.

Margaret Mead

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

Michael Ondaatje

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

Michael Ondaatje

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

Maureen Johnson

Oh my God!" said one of the Ambers. "Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow?" She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of human existence? Her own head?

Maya Angelou

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

Matsuo Basho

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

Matsuo Basho

Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.

Matsuo Basho

All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.

Patricia Briggs

Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.

Patricia Briggs

Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come. (Moon Called)

Pablo Neruda

Under your skin the moon is alive.

Plato

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

Martin Rees

I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains They could be staring us in the face and we just Don't recognise them. The problem is that we-re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.

Martin Rees

Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth. . . . Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos.

Lance Armstrong

Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.

Laini Taylor

Once upon a time, there were two moons, who were sisters. Nitid was the goddess of tears and life, and the sky was hers. No one worshipped Ellai but secret lovers.

Lisa Loeb

The moon shines for you.

John Shelby Spong

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

John Sculley

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

John Phillips

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

Martin Luther

People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

Mark Tobey

But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.