Stars Quotes - Page 13

• What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

  Christa McAuliffe

  Space, Reaching, Reaching For The Stars

  "Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986". Time magazine, content.time.com. February 10, 1986.

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• Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

  Hank Aaron

  Games, Shoes, Rose

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• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

  Imelda Marcos

  Beautiful, Looks, Want

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

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• The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.

  Johannes Kepler

  Baby, Astrology, Soul

  "Harmonices Mundi". Book by Johannes Kepler, 1618.

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• But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Compassion, Thinking

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

  Major Taylor

  Years, Careers, Tests

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Morning, Fall, Heart

  'The American Flag' in New York Evening Post, 29 May 1819 (attributed also to Fitz-Greene Halleck)

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• It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sex, Acting, World

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Spring, Flower

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, White, America

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• Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Power, Greatness, Men

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

  Jane Fonda

  Sex, Roles, Realization

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• The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Leadership, Business, Inspiration

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• Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Buddhist

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• And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Reflection

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• We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

  John Daniel

  Life, Tides, Mystery

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• Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.

  Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

  Beautiful, Looks, World

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• A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

  Samuel Grafton

  Inspirational, Funny, Eye

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• In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.

  Ann Weems

  Death, Prayer, Hands

  Ann Weems (1999). “Psalms of Lament”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

  George Iles

  Truth, Ignorance, Science

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• How sweet to move at summer's eve
  By Clyde's meandering stream,
  When Sol in joy is seen to leave
  The earth with crimson beam;
  When islands that wandered far
  Above his sea couch lie,
  And here and there some gem-like star
  Re-opes its sparkling eye.

  Andrew Park

  Summer, Sweet, Lying

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• Six feet under the stars is a place that doesn't exist. It's a place in your mind where everything and anything is possible. It's a place with no rules or limitations. It's a place where only two people can be at a time where no one can judge them and no one could try to break them apart.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Hate, Two, Feet

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• We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.

  David Bottoms

  Running, New Year, Hands

  David Bottoms (1980). “Shooting rats at the Bibb County Dump”, William Morrow &Company

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• A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's image was laboured over in a manner not dissimilar to that of pop stars today. What he wore, what he said, what postures he adopted during speeches were all worked out carefully... Many people began to separate Hitler from the Nazi Party, enabling Hitler's popularity to remain high whilst the popularity of the Nazi Party fell.

  Alison Kitson

  Strong, Party, People

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• Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

  Peter H. Reynolds

  Teacher, Teaching, Constellations

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