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I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?
Author:
Isabel Yosito
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If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.
Author:
James Wood
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I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.
Author:
John Williams
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Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn't feel were the moon or the stars.
Author:
Hunter Tylo
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Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
Author:
Sojourner Truth
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Author:
W. Stone
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This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
Author:
Tavis Smiley
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You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.
Author:
Gordon Sinclair
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It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.
Author:
Georges Simenon
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The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.
Author:
Brad Sherman
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My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.
Author:
Duncan Sheik
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Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.
Author:
Artie Shaw
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If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.
Author:
John Sculley
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We got to the moon.
Author:
Rusty Schweickart
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I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.
Author:
Jason Schwartzman
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It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.
Author:
Dwight Schultz
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
Author:
Olive Schreiner
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
Author:
Jack Schmitt
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I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
Author:
Wally Schirra
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal,.
Author:
Wally Schirra
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I lost the ball in the moon.
Author:
Hank Sauer
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They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Author:
Bobby Sands
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
Author:
Burt Rutan
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
Author:
Warren Rue
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Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.
Author:
Mark Roberts
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
Author:
Arthur Rimbaud
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You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.
Author:
Keith Richards
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Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.
Author:
Willis Reed
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The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Author:
Plautus
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We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.
Author:
John Phillips
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Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.
Author:
John Phillips
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Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.
Author:
Itzhak Perlman
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I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.
Author:
Alexandra Paul
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The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
Author:
Alan Parsons
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The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
Author:
Alan Parsons
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
Author:
Barney Oliver
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I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.
Author:
Bill Nye
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The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.
Author:
Frank Nugent
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The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
Author:
Alfred Noyes
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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
Author:
Larry Niven
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Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.
Author:
Michael Nesmith
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
Author:
Van Morrison
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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
Author:
Toni Morrison
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
Author:
Thomas More
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I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
Author:
Sun Moon
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A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.
Author:
Sun Moon
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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
Author:
John Milton
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
Author:
H. Mencken
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I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.
Author:
Christa McAuliffe
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The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.
Author:
David Mallet
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.
Author:
Mako
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A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.
Author:
Bill Maher
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I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.
Author:
Amy Lowell
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The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.
Author:
James Lovell
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The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
Author:
Pierre Loti
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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
Author:
John Lennon
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Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.
Author:
Sheila Lee
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They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
Author:
Edward Lear
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The day I finished 'Twilight', I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon', I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in Twilight.
Author:
Taylor Lautner
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The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.
Author:
Tim LaHaye
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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
Author:
Phil Knight
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In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
Author:
John Kennedy
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When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
Author:
David Jordan
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It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Author:
Franklin Jones
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Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.
Author:
Rafer Johnson
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The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one.
Author:
Douglas Jerrold
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
Author:
Muhammad Iqbal
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In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.
Author:
Neil Innes
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The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
Author:
Jean Ingelow
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From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Author:
Tom Hanks
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Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.
Author:
Tom Hanks
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I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?
Author:
Luis Guzman
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I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.
Author:
Umberto Guidoni
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It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!
Author:
Wilson Greatbatch
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We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
Author:
Wilson Greatbatch
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There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.
Author:
Wilson Greatbatch
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Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.
Author:
Kenneth Grahame
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
Author:
Bart Gordon
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I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.
Author:
Linda Godwin
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I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
Author:
Clifford Geertz
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
Author:
Ace Frehley
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You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.
Author:
Jeff Foxworthy
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For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have several possibilities to go there, and within this framework of cooperation to have our own access to orbit around the Moon.
Author:
Alain Fournier
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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.
Author:
Lee Forest
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When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
Author:
John Fogerty
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
Author:
M. Fisher
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Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.
Author:
Sherilyn Fenn
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In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing.
Author:
Jimmy Fallon
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Author:
Henry Ellis
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
Author:
Havelock Ellis
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The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
Author:
Black Elk
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I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.
Author:
Ian Dury
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We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.
Author:
Danny DeVito
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
Author:
Don DeLillo
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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
Author:
Bette Davis
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What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
Author:
Norman Cousins
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There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.
Author:
Barry Cornwall
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I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
Author:
Ezra Cornell
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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
Author:
Nicolaus Copernicus
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I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.
Author:
Pete Conrad
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The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Author:
Confucius
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I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.
Author:
Laurel Clark
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Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
Author:
Carol Christ
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In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.
Author:
Jay Chiat
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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Author:
Anton Chekhov
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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
Author:
Anton Chekhov
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What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?
Author:
Jerome Cavanagh
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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
Author:
George Carlin
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I'd like to go to the Moon.
Author:
Jeanne Calment
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From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.
Author:
Gabriel Byrne
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We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.
Author:
George Bush
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They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.
Author:
Emma Bull
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Author:
Buddha
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The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
Author:
William Bryant
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Author:
Rita Brown
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Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
Author:
Les Brown
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
Author:
David Brower
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
Author:
David Brinkley
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Author:
Hal Borland
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
Author:
William Blake
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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Author:
Algernon Blackwood
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Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.
Author:
Sean Bean
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And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.
Author:
Roy Bean
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But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
Author:
Alan Bean
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I can remember walking on the moon.
Author:
Alan Bean
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It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.
Author:
Alan Bean
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The moon is very rugged.
Author:
Alan Bean
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We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
Author:
Alan Bean
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If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?
Author:
Kylie Bax
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
Author:
Matsuo Basho
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
Author:
Matsuo Basho
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The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
Author:
Dennis Banks
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Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
Author:
Robert Ballard
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For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
Author:
Richard Baker
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Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.
Author:
Mary Austin
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The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.
Author:
Robert Asprin
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Author:
Neil Armstrong
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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Author:
Neil Armstrong
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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
Author:
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
Author:
Susan Anthony
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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
Author:
Laurie Anderson
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For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.
Author:
Eric Anderson
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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
Author:
Anaxagoras
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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Author:
Henri Amiel
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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Author:
Gary Allan
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I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
Author:
Jean Alesi
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Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.
Author:
Goodman Ace
