“ The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth rate. ”
- Christopher Fry- Copy
- 436
“ There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 47
“ My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more. ”
- Walter Matthau- Copy
- 824
“ The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomer… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 416
“ War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.4K
“ So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. ”
- Russell Wayne Baker- Copy
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“ Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra…these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known…this is the only thing I can say about the matter… ”
- Vladimir Nabokov- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows, The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her, Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer Unto the harvest of the eternal summer, Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 4K
“ Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine. ”
- Jean Ingelow- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
- 630
“ I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
- 643
“ Tis the witching hour of night, Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they? ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 3.2K
“ When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
- 849
“ It is like a finger pointing toward the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
- 3.3K
“ There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars. ”
- Jill McLemore- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. ”
- Magellan- Copy
- 2.6K
“ A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3.7K
“ But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter. ”
- Arthur Rimbaud- Copy
- 2K
“ Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. ”
- Joseph Bayly- Copy
- 108
“ Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.9K
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