Quotes about stars
stars clever hard-work
Gene Roddenberry Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow—it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids—human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.
stars maturity ideas
Gene Roddenberry Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.
stars kings rocks
Gene Simmons When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
stars war self
Gene Simmons Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, do or do not. There is no 'try'
stars rocks rock-star
Gene Simmons I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.
stars selfish war
Gene Simmons My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.
stars delay looks
Garth Nix For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.
stars paradox prime
Gail Sheehy It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
stars wind forever
Frederick Douglass Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.
stars moon play
Frank Sinatra Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.
stars men thinking
George Edward Woodberry What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!
stars communication philosophical
Fernando Pessoa Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
stars moving sky
Flannery O'Connor The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.
stars thinking people
Ferran Adria People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?
stars angel biblical
Henry M. Morris The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star in Biblical usage applies to any heavenly body other than the sun and moon) would be particularly likely to be involved, in the view of the heavy concentration of angels, both bad and evil, around the planet Earth.
stars heart mean
Henry Louis Gates Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh.
stars dancing flesh
Henry Miller We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
stars together clusters
Henry Miller Cluster together like stars!
stars wagons doe
Helen Keller Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.
stars ducks important
Cat Stevens It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
stars black-and-white thinking
Cat Stevens In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
stars princess dying
Cassandra Clare There is more to living than not dying," he said. "Look at the way you live Will. You burn as bright as a star.
stars valentine eye
Cassandra Clare Do you remember, the night of the battle on Valentine's ship, when I needed some of your strength?" "Do you need it again now?" Alec said. "Because you can have it." "I always need your strength, Alec," Magnus said, and closed his eyes as their intertwined fingers began to shine, as if between them they held the light of a star.
stars thinking fog
Cassandra Clare Will nodded slowly, then looked up at tha black sky. "The stars", he said. "I have never seen them so bright. The wind has blown off the fog, I think." Magnus thought of the joy on Will's face as he had stood bleeding in Camille's living room, clutching the demon tooth in his hand. Somehow I don't think it's the stars that have changed.
stars thinking names
Cassandra Clare That ones yours,huh?"he asked,pointing to 3A."How come it just says 'Kyle'?Doesnt he have a last name?" "Kyle wants to be a rock star,"Simon said,heading down the stairs."I think his working the one-name thing.Like Rihanna.
stars moving desire
Cassandra Clare My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.
stars moving love-you
Cassandra Clare It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.' Dante was trying to explain faith, I thnk, as an overpowering love, and maybe it's blasphemous, but that's how I think of the way that I love you. You came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to- that I loved you, and you loved me.
stars law
Cassandra Clare You bled on the Speaking stars ...I bet there's a law somewhere about that.
stars persistence night
George Eliot O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.
stars tree golden
George Eliot The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
stars sea sailor
George Eliot I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.
stars may ass
George Eliot An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.