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• Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

  Mary Pickford

  Movie, Venus De Milo, Sound Doctrine

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

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• Joy may you have and gentle hearts content
  Of your loves couplement:
  And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love,
  With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Joy, May

  Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, Norris Deck (1866). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.280

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• An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Eclipse Of The Sun, Half

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Hair, Mad, Soul

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• You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Cities, Names, Liberty

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• It was magic, I felt the bond between us.
  She was a jelly to my peanuts, Mars to Venus,
  The Earth to my sun, moon and stars,
  We added up mathematically...
  It's like I had a bad habit, B!

  Ghostface Killah

  Stars, Rap, Moon

  Song: The Center of Attraction

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• By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Scrutiny, Firmament, Profundity

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

  Mary Pickford

  Venus De Milo, Talking, Lips

  "Mary Pickford Sees Talkies as Lipstick on Milo". Los Angeles Times, p. 1. Cf. "Los Angeles Times", 20 March 1934, p. A4: "Talking pictures are like lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.", March 18, 1934.

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• Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

  Steven Wright

  Time, Sorry, Mind

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• Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.

  Pablo Picasso

  Race, Goes On, May

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Way, Eclipse, Solar Eclipse

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Venus transit: It’s not about the ‘spectacle’" by Emi Kolawole, www.washingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• All the sea-gods are dead.
  You, Venus, come home
  To your salt maidenhead.

  Allen Tate

  Home, Sea, Salt

  Allen Tate (1947). “Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection”

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• I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Moving, Science

  "The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Document". Book by Kate Aughterson (p. 383), June 1, 2002.

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• Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Glasses, Rose, Greek

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• I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture "Venus in Furs

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Tired, Kissing

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• Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
  And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Lying, Mercury

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.180

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• Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

  Ovid

  Strong, Lying, Moving

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• and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
  she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
  she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
  and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Gay, Dark, Blood

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Whales Weep Not!”

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• But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sleep, Bird, Today

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• Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.

  Robert Hunter

  Stars, Moon, Light

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Ideas, Yellow, Orange

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• I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Thinking, Easy

  "AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.

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• I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Beautiful, Real

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.46, tredition

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• Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Shining, Locks, Radiance

  Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin (1826). “The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: with a memoir”, p.87

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