Neptune Quotes

• Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Doctrine, Anarchy

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• The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.

  Antoine-Marin Lemierre

  World

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• Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

  Mike Brown

  Bully, Orbit, Pluto

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• A little water clears us of this deed.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Lady Macbeth, Deeds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 68

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• All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

  Jean Racine

  Sleep, Army, Wind

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• Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with his sword instead of stabbing like a Roman would, whacking campers with the flat of his blade, and generally causing mass panic.

  Rick Riordan

  Feet, Style, Panic

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• My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hands, Color

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.30, 1st World Publishing

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• I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes.

  David Gallagher

  Fans, Touched, Huge

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days." Percy frowned. "You have a feast for tuna?

  Rick Riordan

  June, Two, Battle

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• He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

  Publilius Syrus

  Suffering, Blame, Shipwreck

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• We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.

  William Herschel

  Science, America, Unseen

  The Living Age ..., Volume 169, p. 460, 1886.

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• It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them - that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men.

  Francis Galton

  Photography, Science, Men

  "Hereditary Genius". Book by Francis Galton, 1869.

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• I'm more into beats than rhymes.

  David Gallagher

  Beats, Rhyme

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• To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

  Joshua Slocum

  Taken, Years, Law

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.280, Applewood Books

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• Sir, The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.

  Johann Gottfried Galle

  Stars, Science, Twenties

  "The Cambridge Planetary Handbook". Book by Michael E. Bakich, 2000.

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• Percy frowned "You have a feast for tuna?

  Rick Riordan

  Tuna, Son Of Neptune

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.37, Penguin UK

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• I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Believe, Earth, My Sister

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• I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

  David Gallagher

  Girl, Weekend, Dancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Drinking, Health, Men

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• This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.

  Urbain Le Verrier

  Distance, Fall, Science

  "The Planet Neptune: An Exposition and History". Book by John Pringle Nichol, 1848.

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• I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Believe, Thinking, Imagination

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• England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
  Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
  Of watery Neptune.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Siege, England

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Atheist, Writing, Bad Ass

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.361, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Appreciate, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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