Stars Quotes - Page 19

• I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I'm a very happy and contented guy. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

  Kirby Puckett

  Heart, Games, Two

  37 Copy quote

• I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Opera, I Can

  4 Copy quote

• Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

  Leonard Michaels

  Believe, Ocean, Cat

  34 Copy quote

• Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fall, Gaps, Now And Then

  6 Copy quote

• Be strong to hope, O Heart!
  Though day is bright,
  The stars can only shine
  In the dark night.
  Be strong, O Heart of mine,
  Look towards the light!

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Strong, Heart, Dark

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.77

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.

  Christopher Columbus

  Moon, Land, Water

  15 Copy quote

• Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

  Alex Chilton

  Lonely, Nice, College

  5 Copy quote

• If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that — in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.

  Steven Weinberg

  Art, Drama, Play

  "The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words". Book edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry, 2008.

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

  David Deutsch

  Optimism, People, Progress

  10 Copy quote

• Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

  David Deutsch

  Intelligent, Gold, Process

  11 Copy quote

• May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

  George Jung

  Blow, Destiny, Wind

  "Fictional character: George Jung". "Blow", 2001.

  121 Copy quote

  Show source

• As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Animal, Essence, Profound

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 8), September 19, 2006.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

  James Connolly

  People, Republican

  449 Copy quote

• To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Night, Thinking, World

  Cecil Rhodes (1902). “The last will and testament of Cecil John Rhodes: with elucidatory notes to which are added some chapters describing the political and religious ideas of the testator”

  120 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.

  Frank Drake

  Lying, Home, Dark

  34 Copy quote

• Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live

  Hans Bethe

  Animal, Giving, Development

  Hans Albrecht Bethe (1968). “Energy production in stars: Nobel lecture”

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Study, Astronomers, Solar System

  17 Copy quote

• I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

  Macklemore

  Successful, Thinking, Artist

  "ESQ&A: Macklemore on Music, Style, and More". Interview with Jeremy Unger, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2012.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I work with a lot of movie stars.

  Norman Jewison

  Movie Star

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. But first we'll have to make changes. And lasting change does not happen overnight. Lasting change happens in infinitesimal increments: a day, an hour, a minute, a heartbeat at a time...

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Change, Land, Heaven

  6 Copy quote

• The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

  Jean Paul

  Heart, Space, Heaven

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.473

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lie on your back and look at the stars.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Lying, Small Joys, Looks

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.95, Harper Collins

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The face of the sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.

  Armin Joseph Deutsch

  Heart, Expression, Littles

  5 Copy quote

• When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sunset, Sight, Troops

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2029, Delphi Classics

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

  Arthur Eddington

  Future, Simple, Reasonable

  Arthur S. Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1926). “The Internal Constitution of the Stars”, p.393, Cambridge University Press

  17 Copy quote

  Show source