Starlight Quotes

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  • The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air. . .and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.

    Night   Air   Leaving  
  • Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The name of the story will be Time, But you must not pronounce its name. Tell me a story of deep delight.

    Robert Penn Warren, “Tell Me A Story”
  • Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

    Love   Beautiful   Dream  
  • The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

    Eye   Years   Naked  
  • A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.

    Stars   Science   Years  
  • And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

    Eye   Goats   May  
  • Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.

    Wall   Spring   Rain  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.148, e-artnow
  • Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.

    Cheer   Fear   Thinking  
  • As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

  • Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

    Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.192, Courier Corporation
  • there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

    Laughter   Home   Eye  
    Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.

    Real   Artist   Thinking  
  • Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

    Dust   Land   Might  
    Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.41, Hachette UK
  • There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

    Country   Stars   Land  
    Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.15, Courier Corporation
  • Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

    Fall   Squares   Rays  
    George Ellery Hale (1931). “Signals from the Stars”
  • Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

    Fire   Light   Blood  
  • It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face.

    Stars   Wall   Rain  
    Conrad Aiken (1918). “The Charnel Rose. Senlin: Biography and Other Poems”, p.57, Ardent Media
  • There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

    Country   Land   Creeks  
    Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.15, Courier Corporation
  • Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation
  • Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand

    Cosmos   Might   Energy  
  • I've done so many superhero comics, and I've actually just been really excited about sci-fi, and Chrononauts and Starlight were both sci-fi, which I had a great time doing.

    Source: www.ign.com
  • I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of my creations. Even back in the days with Lady Starlight, my original partner, we aimed to bemuse. This feeling of bemusement - it's neither good nor bad. It just is. Whether critics realize it or not, they've been in a very long argument since my public birth.

    Thinking   Long   People  
    "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.
  • Three young cats with starlight in their eyes and the whisper of ancient wind in their fur." -Rock, Cats of the Clans

    Cat   Eye   Rocks  
  • And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.

    Brother   Real   Winter  
    Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free.

    Death   Beach   Night  
    Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”
  • I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

    Moon   World   Tongue  
    Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”
  • The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.301
  • The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

    Funny   God   Humorous  
    P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.381, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • We only see starlight because all the stars are bleeding.

    Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.252, Canongate Books
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