Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donna Tartt

When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

Daniel Quinn

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

e. e. cummings

the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

e. e. cummings

Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

e. e. cummings

notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening

e. e. cummings

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Duncan Sheik

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

Allen Ginsberg

I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.

Andrea Dworkin

Does the sun ask itself, "Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?" No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, "What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?" No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, "Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?" No, it burns, it shines.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

Alec Guinness

That's no moon. It's a space station

Alfred Noyes

Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon....

Alfred Noyes

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.

Albert Einstein

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Albert Einstein

The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.

We'll show up and play anywhere. We'd play on the moon if they ever get a shuttle going.

Doug Liman

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

Dylan Thomas

Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun

Douglas William Jerrold

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Dick Gregory

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

Amartya Sen

Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now.

Anaxagoras

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

Anaxagoras

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

Anthony de Mello

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

Anna Magnani

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Anne Sexton

For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.

Anne Rice

...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.

Anne Rice

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

Anita Desai

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.