Stars Quotes - Page 12

• Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

  Homer

  Rocks, Rock Star, Knows

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• When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

  Ovid

  Eye, Animal, Men

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• I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy... parts of one organic whole.... (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars; none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Love, Beautiful, Believe

  Robinson Jeffers, Albert Gelpi (2003). “The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers”, p.189, Stanford University Press

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• Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

  Piet Mondrian

  Sea, Sky, Unity

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itself…the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.

  Poul Anderson

  Believe, Fall, Dark

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• I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

  Poul Anderson

  Book, Writing, Two

  "Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction", www.locusmag.com. April 1997.

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• Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

  Poul Anderson

  Wise, Fall, Dark

  Poul Anderson (2014). “The Broken Sword”, p.234, Open Road Media

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• In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

  Poul Anderson

  Personality, Machines, Harvest

  "Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction", www.locusmag.com. April 1997.

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• Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!

  Harlan Ellison

  War, Doctors, Brain

  "Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang". Book by Terrance Dicks. Introduction, p. 7, 1977.

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• Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the dark void, like an infinitely tenuous smoke rising from an extinguished fire. Upon these motes, these gigantic worlds, the ultimate populations had created here and there with their artificial lighting a pale glow, invisible even from the innermost ring of lifeless planets.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Dark, Fire, Here And There

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.404, Courier Corporation

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• Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star kills. He is greater than those bright blind companies. For though in them there is incalculable potentiality, in him there is achievement, small, but actual. Too soon, seemingly, he comes to his end. But when he is done he will not be nothing, not as though he had never been; for he is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Men, Done, Spirit

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• I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.

  Joy Harjo

  Past, Dust, Wind

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• Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

  Carol Alt

  Careers, Want, Actresses

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

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• And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

  Petrarch

  Ocean, Men, Rivers

  Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, as translated by James Harvey Robinson (1898), April 26, 1336.

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• Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dreamer, World, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.32, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Two men looked out from prison bars,
  One saw the mud, the other saw stars.

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, Two, Mud

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.135, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.

  Eric Carle

  Children, Artist, Years

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• It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

  Brian De Palma

  Tomorrow

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.178, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A star for every State, and a State for every star.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  States

  Speech on Boston Common, 27 August 1862

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• The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dark, Shining, Enough

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Fall, Missing, Relaxation

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• From what we cannot hold the stars are made.

  W. S. Merwin

  Made

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. June 26, 2009.

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• Snub end of a dismal year,
  deep in the dwarf orchard,
  The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars,
  I stand in the dark and answer to
  My life, this shirt I want to take off,
  which is on fire . . .

  Charles Wright

  Dark, Fire, Dwarves

  Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

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• For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

  Amanda Palmer

  Motivation, Inspiration, Artist

  "How the Internet Is Changing Music (Feat. Amanda Palmer on Vocals)" by Rob Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2013.

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• The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.

  Kalpana Chawla

  Moving, Sunset, Sky

  AsianWeek, February 7-13, 2003.

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