148 quotes found
“A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal tha...”
“...Neruda was right about all mysterious women - The moon lives in the lining of their skin...”
“The weather appeared to have somewhat cleared up; the rain no longer fell, a fresh wind swept the streets, and the moon, now and then surrounded by dark clouds, now and then shining in full brillia...”
“The dark, twisting clouds that had settled over Vendonas streets seemed to open up and glide past the winking moon. The wind moaned slowly as it died while the trees began dancing with a melody onl...”
“I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma ...”
“The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.”
“Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything went black.”
“The taste of moon's song.”
“If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!”
“Thats the moon, I said.Gran likes it like that, said Lettie Hempstock.But it was a crescent moon yesterday. And now its full. And it was raining. It is raining. But now its not.Gran likes the full ...”
“Science is going to build a base on the Moon! This is a very necessary and a very possible mission! Start and finish! Thousands of problems will arise in this mission, thousands of solutions will b...”
“The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us.The moon is a loyal companion.It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and ...”
“A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is l...”
“The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it!”
“When I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind's eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat for hours after returning from space, just eating ice cream and watching the...”
“If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.”
“Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.”
“A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you'll find at your local industrial park. That's the...”
“As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitica...”
“I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.”
