Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.

Rumi

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets The moon sets But they are not gone.

Rumi

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

Rumi

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.

Tom Robbins

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

Tom Robbins

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

Tom Robbins

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

Tom Robbins

Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.

Tom Robbins

The full moon - the mandala of the sky.

Stephen Hawking

If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.

Shirley Jackson

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

Shirley Jackson

On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

Steven Chu

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

Steven Pinker

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.

Susan Howatch

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

Sun Myung Moon

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

Sun Myung Moon

A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.

Sue Monk Kidd

I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath. Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt like I could see through t something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way.

Ray Bradbury

It could reach up and grab the moon.

Ray Bradbury

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

Ray Bradbury

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

Ray Bradbury

The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

Ray Bradbury

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Ray Bradbury

The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.

Randy Moss

I smoke a blunt once every blue moon. But hey, the moon looks kinda blue tonight...

Shan Sa

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

Shane Koyczan

Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.

Sherilyn Fenn

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.

Sebastian Thrun

Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.

Rajneesh

My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.

Rajneesh

Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being

Rajneesh

One has to love unconditionally - the trees and the rocks and the sun and the moon and the people.

Smokey Robinson

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.