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  • All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

    Sleep   Army   Wind  
  • I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

    Believe   Neptune   Earth  
  • Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with his sword instead of stabbing like a Roman would, whacking campers with the flat of his blade, and generally causing mass panic.

    Feet   Style   Panic  
  • He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

  • My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

    Heart   Hands   Color  
    William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.30, 1st World Publishing
  • When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.

    Home   Space   Needs  
    Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company
  • If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

    Car   Would Be   Neptune  
    "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on killing Pluto: 'All I did was drive the getaway car'" by Thomas Houston, www.theverge.com. March 26, 2012.
  • It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.482, Simon and Schuster
  • I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.

    Fun   Holiday   Sadness  
  • Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

    Drinking   Health   Men  
  • Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.

    Cutting   Ideas   People  
  • Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

    Ocean   Blood   Hands  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61
  • This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.

    Distance   Fall   Science  
    "The Planet Neptune: An Exposition and History". Book by John Pringle Nichol, 1848.
  • The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.

    James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.820, Рипол Классик
  • When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

    Real   People   Neptune  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.

    Glasses   Sky   Two  
  • Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.

    Percival Lowell, Lowell Observatory (1915). “Memoir on a trans-Neptunian planet”
  • The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.

    Neptune   World  
  • If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.

    Mother   Sea   Names  
  • A little water clears us of this deed.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 68
  • I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

  • There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune." "You'll have to risk it...and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related." Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?

    Son   Air   Risk  
  • Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the same fate. First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.

    Running   Weed   Fate  
    "The Son of Neptune". Book by Rick Riordan, October 4, 2011.
  • You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.

    Art   Drinking   Book  
  • Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune

  • Sir, The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.

    "The Cambridge Planetary Handbook". Book by Michael E. Bakich, 2000.
  • England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

    Sea   Neptune   Siege  
    'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40
  • Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

    Bully   Orbit   Neptune  
    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.

    Ocean   Heart   Eye  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61
  • Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. “I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?” “Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . .

    Sky   Two   Glasses  
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