Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas a Kempis

Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Sid Meier

No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning.

Shel Silverstein

So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

Shel Silverstein

Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

Neil Patrick Harris

He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman

Natalie Portman

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

Natalie Portman

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

Natalie Portman

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

Tatyana Ali

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

Tatiana Maslany

I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

Tanya Roberts

What I really want is a commercial hit. If youre in a hit, youre suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.

Joseph Conrad

Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

Joseph Conrad

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

Joseph Conrad

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.

Joshua Bell

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

Kate Mulgrew

I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.

Kate Mulgrew

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

Kate Mulgrew

I think people think I'm accessible. I'm never treated as a star, either by fans or other actors, and I like it like that. I don't get the star treatment. I think that means I'm a good actor. They acknowledge me as a human being, and to me, that's invalua.

Kate Moss

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

Kaskade

The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

Leonard Cohen

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

Leonard Cohen

So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

Leonard Cohen

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

Laz Alonso

I'm a big fan of 'Star Wars.' Some of the most iconic characters of 'Star Wars,' we didn't see their faces but to this day you can say Jabba the Hutt or Darth Vader and people know what you mean around the world.

Lauren Beukes

I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.

Lauren Ambrose

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

Laura Ziskin

In some ways, the most rewarding thing I've done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time because it was really like the ultimate "Let's put on a show," with every great movie star in the world available.

Laurel Clark

Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.

Lance Reddick

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.