Total Eclipse Quotes

• In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Heart, Numbers, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

  Simon Newcomb

  Party, Eclipse Of The Sun, Regions

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

  Simon Newcomb

  America, Eclipse Of The Sun, British

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Religious, War, Religion

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• O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

  John Milton

  Hope, Dark, Science

  Samson Agonistes l. 80 (1671) See T. S. Eliot 104

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• Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Music, Broken Heart, Falling In Love

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• It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

  Terry Pratchett

  Moon, Piano, Yellow

  "Sourcery (Discworld, Book 5)". Book by Terry Pratchett, May 26, 1988.

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• The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Unbearable, Unbearable Things

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• I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

  Annie Dillard

  Flirting, Men, Doe

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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• The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

  Carl Sagan

  Morning, Sunset, Moon

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• The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!

  Muhammad Ali

  Dream, Crowds, Eclipse

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2010

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• Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun.

  Douglas Coupland

  Years, Eclipse Of The Sun, Fifteen

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.9, Hachette UK

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