Star Quotes - 3
|
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says "Let's make a wish on a star," there is one thing I wish for: wisdom.
|
More Star Quotes
Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!
Robert Browning— 1855 Men and Women,'Popularity'.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
— 1870 Society and Solitude,'Civilization'.
And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.
john milton— c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.
Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star.
Tennyson— 1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 64, l.1-8.
You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
humphrey bogart— Attributed without citation in Vivian Cook, "Can they spell your name in Karachi? British and American style spelling"
Edward de Bono is the Cambridge academic who is making a lot of money out of peddling his ideas about "lateral thinking" to managers, bureaucrats and anyone else who will pay to listen. Whether the concept of lateral thinking is pure hokum or a precious revelation is a matter of some controversy. Either way, de Bono has won himself a small niche in communications history as the star of Britain's first complete, video- cassette-oriented film series, "Organised creativity and lateral thinking".
edward de bono— Timothy Johnson (1971) "Science and the paymasters: Videocasettes: What happened" In: New Scientist Vol. 52, nr. 774, 16 dec 1971. p. 177
Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying, 'Oh, Ooh, basically a star is a pretty simple thing.' And from the back of the room was heard the voice of R. O. Redman, saying, 'Well, Fred, you'd look pretty simple too, from ten parsecs!'
fred hoyle— John Faulkner, in his contribution, Red giants: then and now, to The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle, 2005.
It all began with the three wise men, followed a star took them to Bethelehem, and made it heard throughout the land - born was the leader of man. All going down to see the Lord Jesus.
freddie mercury— Written by Freddie Mercury in 1973.
Far up the dim twilight flutteredMoth-wings of vapour and flame:The lights danced over the mountains,star after star they came.The lights grew thicker unheeded,For silent and still were we;Our hearts were drunk with a beautyOur eyes could never see.
george william russell— "The Unknown God" (1913)
When the song of the angels is stilled,When the star in the sky is gone,When the kings and princes are home,When the shepherds are back with their flock,The work of Christmas begins:To find the lost,To heal the broken,To feed the hungry,To release the prisoner,To rebuild the nations,To bring peace among people,?To make music in the heart.
howard thurman— "The Work of Christmas" in The Mood of Christmas & Other Celebrations (1985)
The star system has us making pictures with personalities rather than stories, sacrificing everything in order to keep some old bags playing young women.
gregg toland— From an essay Toland wrote for International Photographer arguing that cinematographers needed to be uncompromising.Hilton Als (2006). "The Cameraman". The New Yorker (June 19): 46–51
The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.
david zindell— p. 236 (The Broken God (1992))
milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were; and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and may came home with a smooth round stone as small as the world and as big as alone for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea
e. e. cummings— "maggie and milly and molly and may" in Complete Poems: 1904-1962
A star looks down at me, And says: "Here I and you Stand each in our degree: What do you mean to do, Mean to do?"
thomas hardy— Waiting Both, lines 1-5, from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925).
The star of the unconquered will.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— The Light of Stars, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— One Word is Too Often Profaned, st. 2.
As I came through the desert thus it was, As I came through the desert: All was black, In heaven no single star, on earth no track; A brooding hush without a stir or note; The air so thick it clotted in my throat.
james thomson— Part VI (The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74))
China believes it is the center of the universe? Look at its flag : one big star surrounded by satellite stars. Arrogant!
— Nguyen Khanh, as quoted in "A Bag of Earth, A Promise To Keep" (28 April 2005), Viet Weekly, by Mike Nally.
I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book III, Chapter IV.
Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar when I put out to sea.
— Alfred Tennyson, Crossing the Bar.
Light gatherer. You fell from a star into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside mirrored in you, and now you shine like a snowgirl, a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder you squeal at and fly in.
carol ann duffy— Carol Ann Duffy, The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002).
It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill, Which then seems as if the whole earth is bounded, Circling all nature, hush'd, and dim, and still, With the far mountain-crescent half surrounded On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill Upon the other, and the rosy sky With one star sparkling through it like an eye.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 183.
Or else flushed Ganymede, his rosy thigh Half buried in the Eagle's down, Sole as a flying star, shot thro' the sky, Above the pillared town.
— Alfred Tennyson, Palace of Art, Stanza 31.
It's unique because it doesn't look like a comet with the typical tail; it looks like a cloud. It's not what you would normally see at all ... With the naked eye, it looks like a star or planet, but with binoculars it's really weird looking; it doesn't happen every day.
— George Masterson, physics and astronomy teacher on Comet 17P/Holmes - quoted in "Mysteriously bright comet provides sky-high teaching moment at NHS" in the Daily News of Newburyport (9 November 2007)
This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which he died) for the benefit of the doctor Stavo bene (was written on his monument) ma per star meglio, sto qui.
— John Dryden, Dedication of the Æneid (29-19 BC), XIV. 149; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 230.
Some day I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemondrops Away above the chimney tops, That's where you'll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then, oh why can't I?
— "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", lyrics by Yip Harburg, music by Harold Arlen, from The Wizard of Oz (1939)
You Are My Lucky star.
Arthur pseudonym of Arthur Grossman Freed— 1935 Title of song featured in Broadway Melody of1936 (music by Nacio Herb Brown).
It seemed to me that I now saw the star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
Olaf Stapledon— Ch. XIII The Beginning and the End, 3. The Supreme Moment and After
Jack Horkheimer, presenter of the popular astrononomy programme star Gazer
— "Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition. I can do little else in my present position." [2]
