Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

Oscar Wilde

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

Oscar Wilde

And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

Lucretius

If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.

Michael Nesmith

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

Mark Twain

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

Jeffrey Kluger

Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

Jean Ingelow

You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

Jacques Yves Cousteau

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

Jacqueline Novogratz

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

Ezra Cornell

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

Erwin Chargaff

You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.

Ernest Holmes

I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.

Federico Garcia Lorca

What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don't go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

George Carlin

I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon.

Garth Stein

The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.

Cat Stevens

Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon

Gary Shteyngart

The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.

Frank Borman

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

George Whitefield

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

Elon Musk

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

Jason Schwartzman

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

Guy Maddin

I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.

Harry Caray

We all know the moon isn't made out of blue cheese...but if it was made out of bbq spare ribs would you eat it?

Bill Cosby

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

Carl Sagan

A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.

Carl Sagan

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

We can return to the moon and ultimately to Mars.

Jean Alesi

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.