Quotes and Sayings about Stars
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Science, Religion, Heart, Belief, Atoms, Lies, Novelty, Popular, Radical, Rejection, Stars)
"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Age, Stars, Sun, Years, Youth)
"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: God, Soul, Goal, Cosmos, Man, Perfection, Stars)
"There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Stars)
"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Power, Virtue, Heaven, Influence, Modesty, Stars, Woman)
"And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive."
- Damon Albarn
(Related: Stars, Voice)
"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Office, Stars)
"You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars."
- Gary Allan
(Related: Moon, Stars)
"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Mistake, People, Hollywood, Stars)
"Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs."
- Fred Allen
(Related: God, Church, Stars)
"Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation."
- Ralph Allen
(Related: Policy, Help, Occupation, Painting, Stars, Will)
"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
- A. R. Ammons
(Related: Stars)
"Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying."
- Harry Anderson
(Related: Fool, Stars, Trying)
"In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program."
- Poul Anderson
(Related: Harvest, Machine, Personality, Stars, Will)
"I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science."
- Poul Anderson
(Related: Science, First, Harvest, Obvious, Stars, Writing)
"How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Men, War, Harmony, Stars)
"Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament."
- Thomas Arnold
(Related: Son, Earth, Mind, Stars, Sun)
"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Burden, Folly, Future, Humanity, Stars, Superstition)
"You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past."
- Tom Atkins
(Related: People, Giants, Past, Stars)
"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Care, Stars)
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Men, Mountains, Ocean, Rivers, Sea, Stars, Wonder)
"Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God."
- Sai Baba
(Related: Nature, God, Glory, Night, Sky, Stars, Unity, Universe)
"The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Men, Fortune, Giving, Light, Sky, Stars)
"It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear."
- Richard H. Baker
(Related: Music, Hope, Hearing, Joy, May, Now, Songs, Stars, Universe)
"The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us."
- Dennis Banks
(Related: Moon, Stars, Sun)
"I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Women, Business, Stars, Talk, Trying, Want)
"Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value."
- Peter Bart
(Related: Behavior, Public, Stars, Study, Value)
"Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation."
- Joe Barton
(Related: History, Sacrifice, America, Heroes, Nation, Stars)
"All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
- Charles A. Beard
(Related: History, Power, God, Gods, First, Stars)
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
- Charles A. Beard
(Related: Stars)
"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars."
- Beck
(Related: Men, Prison, Stars)
"The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Difference, Film, Stars)
"It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Actors, Marketing, Stars, Vice)
"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet."
- Jeremy Bentham
(Related: Feet, Flowers, Man, Stars)
"I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job."
- Michael Biehn
(Related: Guest, Job, Stars)
"A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars."
- Heston Blumenthal
(Related: Country, Stars, Will)
"But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement."
- Lindy Boggs
(Related: Party, President, Stars, State, Want)
"I feel there is a curse on rock stars."
- Marc Bolan
(Related: Stars)
"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars."
- Giotto di Bondone
(Related: Heart, Stars)
"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Light, Stars)
"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Stars)
"The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know."
- Sonia Braga
(Related: Stars)
"When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky."
- Tycho Brahe
(Related: Habit, Sky, Stars)
"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."
- David M. Brown
(Related: Thought, People, Growing up, Job, Stars, Thinking)
"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."
- Les Brown
(Related: Moon, Stars, Will)
"The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Eye, Pain, Sky, Stars, Tears)
"Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out."
- Brooke Burke
(Related: Conversation, Forget, Stars)
"My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Mother, Hollywood, Stars)
"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: May, Stars)
"We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky."
- George H. W. Bush
(Related: Diversity, Light, Nation, Sky, Stars)
"Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?"
- Jeb Bush
(Related: Beauty, Night, Space, Stars, Wonder)
"Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?"
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Time, Mystery, Want)
"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?"
- Lord Byron
(Related: Infinity, Living, Stars)
"Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!"
- Lord Byron
(Related: Poetry)
"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
- Elias Canetti
(Related: Stars)
"Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe."
- Annie Jump Cannon
(Related: Stars, Universe)
"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Courage, Man, Stars, Will, World)
"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."
- Joshua Chamberlain
(Related: Old, Stars)
"You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars."
- Wilt Chamberlain
(Related: Being, Stars)
"Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars."
- Chevy Chase
(Related: Media, Press, Stars, Television)
"I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars."
- Chevy Chase
(Related: Fans, Stars)
"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."
- Kalpana Chawla
(Related: Land, Stars)
"It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon."
- Kate Chopin
(Related: Earth, Energy, Stars)
"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."
- Arthur C. Clarke
(Related: Men, Earth, Extreme, Nationalism, Perspective, Stars)
"The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them."
- George Clooney
(Related: Information, Stars)
"I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars."
- Jacqueline Cochran
(Related: Travel, Stars, Wind)
"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."
- Joel Coen
(Related: People, Actors, First, Stars)
"Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character."
- Joel Coen
(Related: People, Character, Stars)
"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."
- Thomas Cole
(Related: Night, Stars)
"Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too."
- Monique Coleman
(Related: Women, Boys, Dancing, Fun, Now, Stars)
"I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool."
- Bootsy Collins
(Related: Being, Stars)
"I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot."
- Jackie Collins
(Related: Music, Lovers, Rap, Stars, Will)
"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
- Confucius
(Related: Government, Virtue, May, Stars)
"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
(Related: Heaven, Stars)
"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
(Related: Stars)
"I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Expression, Obscurity, Stars)
"This dark brightness that falls from the stars."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Stars)
"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur."
- John Corry
(Related: Flying, Stars)
"Your chilly stars I can forgo, this warm kind world is all I know."
- William Johnson Cory
(Related: Stars, World)
"The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor."
- Tom Courtenay
(Related: Business, Actor, Film, Stars)
"I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage."
- Noel Coward
(Related: Astrology, Blame, Stars)
"We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set."
- Nikki Cox
(Related: Favorite, Guest, Heaven, Stars)
"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
- e. e. cummings
(Related: Dance, Stars)
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
- e. e. cummings
(Related: Dance, Stars)
"Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me."
- James Daly
(Related: Stars)
"Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Money, People, Stars)
"You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars."
- James Daly
(Related: Technology, Stars)
"Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?"
- Evan Dando
(Related: Movies, Act, Right, Stars)
"The stars that have most glory have no rest."
- Samuel Daniel
(Related: Glory, Rest, Stars)
"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."
- Bette Davis
(Related: Moon, Stars)
"We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to."
- Bette Davis
(Related: End, Stars, Want)
"I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up."
- Cat Deeley
(Related: Stars)
"Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Love, Thought, People)
"We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds."
- Ruth St. Denis
(Related: Night, Songs, Stars)
"I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop."
- Ruth St. Denis
(Related: Life, Magic, Stars)
"We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger."
- Charlie Dent
(Related: Time, Confidence, Conflict, Pride, Stars, Today)
"I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment."
- Caroline Dhavernas
(Related: Environment, Guest, Stars, Trying)
"You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music."
- Dustin Diamond
(Related: Music, Actors, Stars, Trying)
"All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap."
- Dustin Diamond
(Related: People, Negative, Banks, Stars)
"We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs."
- Jared Diamond
(Related: Stars)
"But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery."
- Irene Dunne
(Related: Women, Mystery, Pornography, Stars, Today)
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."
- Henry Van Dyke
(Related: Life, Love, Work, Chance, Play, Stars)
"If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: People, Hearing, Hollywood, Now, Stars)
"We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: Movies, Society, Action, African, American, Now, Stars)
"The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars."
- Kenneth Edmonds
(Related: Movies, Stars)
"I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from."
- Jenna Elfman
(Related: Future, Reality, Stars, Understanding)
"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
- George Eliot
(Related: May, Stars)
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Moon, Stars, Sun)
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
- Henry Ellis
(Related: Moon, Stars, Sun)
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man, Night, Stars, Years)
"No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars."
- Quintus Ennius
(Related: Feet, Stars)
"From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better."
- Joe Eszterhas
(Related: Movies, Performance, Reason, Stars, Want)
"Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars."
- Joe Eszterhas
(Related: Success, Fact, Stars)
"I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly."
- Siobhan Fahey
(Related: People, Fame, Fortune, Ugly)
"Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason."
- Jimmy Fallon
(Related: Reason, Stars)
"I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Money, People, Football, Soccer, Stars)
"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
- Richard P. Feynman
(Related: Beauty, Science, Atoms, Night, Poets, Stars)
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Music, Dance, Speech, Stars, Will)
"Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Time, Dance, Language, Pity, Stars)
"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Ideas, Enthusiasm, Energy, Eyes, Stars, Will)
"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Stars, Trees, Wind)
"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it."
- Lukas Foss
(Related: Work, Art, Performance, Charisma, Personality, Stars)
"You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable."
- Cathy Freeman
(Related: Stars)
"Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Nature, Adventure, Americans, Commerce, Destiny, Help, Potential, Space, Stars, Tests, Will)
"When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile."
- Charles Frohman
(Related: Smile, Stars)
"I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!"
- Daisy Fuentes
(Related: Thought, Fun, Old, Stars, Talk, Years)
"Pop stars should not eat."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Stars)
"Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour."
- Neil Gaiman
(Related: Stars, Writers)
"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Nothing, Stars)
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Night, Stars)
"I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars."
- Gil Gerard
(Related: People, Film, Stars)
"Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing."
- Jami Gertz
(Related: Time, Being, First, Kids, Parents, Stars, Summer)
"We had to leave Australia to become international stars."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Stars)
"I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses."
- Maurice Gibb
(Related: Act, Houses, Stars)
"There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers."
- Kathie Lee Gifford
(Related: Stars)
"We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years."
- Trisha Goddard
(Related: People, Beginnings, Eyes, Stars, Years)
"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Religion, Stars, Word)
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Dream, Certainty, Nothing, Sight, Stars)
"As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential."
- William Goldman
(Related: Stars)
"God makes stars. I just produce them."
- Samuel Goldwyn
(Related: God, Stars)
"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."
- Kenneth Grahame
(Related: Company, Moon, Stars, Talk)
"A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything."
- Lee Grant
(Related: Being, Chance, Name, Stars, Writer)
"A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate."
- Julien Green
(Related: People, Fear, Light, Sky, Stars, World)
"I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe."
- Brian Greene
(Related: Thought, Glory, Night, Sense, Sky, Stars, Universe, Wonder)
"A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor."
- Kathy Griffin
(Related: Humor, Sense, Stars)
"I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond."
- Val Guest
(Related: Stars)
"You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work."
- Taylor Hackford
(Related: Work, Care, Stars)
"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Nature, God, Beetles, Creation, Stars, Study)
"You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: Actors, Film, Rap, Stars)
"15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: People, Deals, Film, Friends, Now, Stars, Years)
"If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens."
- Daryl Hall
(Related: Funny)
"You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that."
- Mark Hamill
(Related: Stars)
"Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge."
- Alan Hamilton
(Related: Time, Stars, Will)
"I'm always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn't have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works."
- Marcia Gay Harden
(Related: Work)
"The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse."
- Thomas Hardy
(Related: Body, Sky, Stars)
"That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them."
- Julie Harris
(Related: People, Stars, Today)
"Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course."
- Neil Patrick Harris
(Related: Work, Fun)
"Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them."
- Gregory Harrison
(Related: Music, Opportunity, Blame, Man, Now, Right, Stars, Want)
"There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s."
- Mary Hart
(Related: Control, Stars, Today)
"The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game."
- Mary Hart
(Related: Play, Stars)
"When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear."
- Mary Hart
(Related: Money, Music, People, Entertainment, Stars, Want)
"There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation."
- Mary Hart
(Related: First, News, Pressure, Stars)
"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight."
- Vaclav Havel
(Related: Truth, Misery, Stars)
"We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios."
- Olivia De Havilland
(Related: Company, Stars)
"Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses."
- Rita Hayworth
(Related: Result, Stars, Today)
"Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Music, Being, Guest, Popular, Stars, Writing)
"You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
- George Herman
(Related: May, Play, Stars, World, Worth)
"I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal."
- Laura Hillenbrand
(Related: Idea, Film, Man)
"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: God, Sky, Space, Stars)
"I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started."
- Josh Holloway
(Related: Actor, Beginning, Stars)
"Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow."
- Tobe Hooper
(Related: Money, People, Hollywood, Law, Stars, Students, Tomorrow, Want)
"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: People, Stars)
"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Father, Brother, Son, Heart, Friend, Heaven, Stars)
"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Love, Soul, Man, Old, Poor, Stars, Water)
"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul, Survival, Dawn, Light, Nations, Night, Stars)
"I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink."
- Elizabeth Hurley
(Related: Sports, Thought, American, Lady, Now, Pretty, Stars, Want)
"Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life."
- Anjelica Huston
(Related: Life, Father, People, Fathers, Friends, Stars)
"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
(Related: Famous, Numbers, Stars, Words)
"I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them."
- Bindi Irwin
(Related: Nothing, Stars, Wildlife)
"This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Hollywood, Stars)
"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood."
- Brion James
(Related: Hollywood, Play, Stars)
"Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars."
- James Jeans
(Related: Space, Stars, Will)
"While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area."
- Jerry B. Jenkins
(Related: Sports, Books, First, Publishing, Stars, Writing)
"I work with a lot of movie stars."
- Norman Jewison
(Related: Work, Stars)
"Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Men, Stars)
"We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart."
- Wynonna Judd
(Related: Heart, June, Losing)
"I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close."
- Henry J. Kaiser
(Related: Dream, Stars, Will)
"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."
- Dean Kamen
(Related: Stars, Teenagers, Thinking)
"The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers."
- Paul Kantner
(Related: Action)
"I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise."
- Elia Kazan
(Related: Money, Praise, Question, Stars, Value)
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Land, Spirit, Stars)
"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Science, Commerce, Disease, Ocean, Stars, Wonders)
"I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars."
- Johannes Kepler
(Related: Earth, Philosophy, Stars)
"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Life, Eye, Stars)
"The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Time, Battle, Slavery, Stars, Symbol)
"There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians."
- Margot Kidder
(Related: God, Politicians, Stars)
"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Travel, People, Birds, Existence, Fish, Mountains, Rivers, Stars, World)
"This party is full of stars. They will all have their chance to shine."
- Roger Knapman
(Related: Chance, Party, Stars, Will)
"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Stars)
"I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more."
- Chantal Kreviazuk
(Related: Music, America, American, Audiences, Career, Now, Stars)
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: Country, Stars)
"I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else."
- Alan Ladd
(Related: Being, Fans, Stars)
"My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors."
- Franklin Knight Lane
(Related: Dream, Stars)
"I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now."
- Sanaa Lathan
(Related: Work, Action, Day, Endurance, Hurt, Now, Respect, Stars)
"I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea."
- Cyndi Lauper
(Related: Idea, Angels, Earth, Energy, Feeling, Feet, Force, Singing, Stars)
"Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting."
- Ang Lee
(Related: Acting, Actors, Careers, Risk, Stars)
"Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun."
- John Lennon
(Related: Moon, Stars, Sun)
"Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd."
- Thomas Lennon
(Related: Man, Reward)
"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."
- Doris Lessing
(Related: People, Film, Pleasure, Royalty, Stars)
"I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments."
- William Lilly
(Related: God, Providence, Rules, Stars)
"Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(Related: Daisies, Memories, Stars)
"When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers."
- Cody Linley
(Related: Visit, Workers)
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: Science, Heart, Belief, Atoms, Lies, Novelty, Radical, Rejection, Stars)
"I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model."
- Brian Littrell
(Related: God, People, Positive, Being, Boys, Right, Stars, Today)
"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Age, Opportunity, Day, Dress, Evening, Sky, Stars, Twilight, Youth)
"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Day, Sky, Stars)
"What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars."
- Courtney Love
(Related: Money, Business, Stars)
"Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together."
- Courtney Love
(Related: Stars)
"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."
- Ernst Lubitsch
(Related: Talent, Man, Name, Stars, Writers)
"Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready."
- Shannon Lucid
(Related: Life, Attention, Stars)
"God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Bible, Clouds, Flowers, Stars, Trees)
"Most movie stars don't change their look at all."
- Kelly Lynch
(Related: Change, Stars)
"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."
- Russell Lynes
(Related: Stars)
"There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Women, Time, Job, Man, Stars)
"It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show."
- Gavin MacLeod
(Related: Stars)
"I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Being, Day, Order, Popular, President, Stars, Television, Want)
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."
- Og Mandino
(Related: Love, Darkness, Light, Stars, Will)
"You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars."
- Murray Gell Mann
(Related: Science, Time, Thought, Stars, Study)
"The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well."
- Diego Maradona
(Related: Stars, Water)
"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Soul, Clouds, Existence, Flowers, Man, Rivers, Stars)
"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."
- Christopher Marlowe
(Related: Art, Beauty, Evening, Stars)
"I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion."
- Eddie Marsan
(Related: Movies, Actor, Actors, End, Fashion, Stars)
"Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Men, Light, Stars)
"Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Canada, Cities, Flying, Night, Stars)
"I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns."
- Jules Massenet
(Related: Living, Occupations, Poor, Stars)
"Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury."
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
(Related: Idea, Acting, Actors, Stars)
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
- Kurt Masur
(Related: Disaster, Stars)
"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
- Victor Mature
(Related: Hollywood, Stars)
"Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do."
- Brian May
(Related: Thought, Stars)
"It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for."
- Benjamin E. Mays
(Related: Disgrace, Stars)
"Reach for the stars."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Stars)
"I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars."
- Jenny McCarthy
(Related: People, Stars)
"I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities."
- David McCullough
(Related: Education, Mother, Father, Stars)
"I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Work, Life, Character, Actors, Career, Careers, Stars, Worry)
"Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Work, Actors, Careers, Stars)
"For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out."
- Karen McDougal
(Related: Music, Play, Stars, Talk, Wine)
"We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars."
- Sarah McLachlan
(Related: Artists, Audiences, Stars)
"With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition."
- George Michael
(Related: People, Film, Self, Stars)
"At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them."
- Slobodan Milosevic
(Related: Time, People, Battle, Famous, Now, Stars, Waiting)
"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller."
- John Milton
(Related: Nature, Heaven, Light, Lonely, Oil, Stars)
"And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that."
- Little Milton
(Related: People, Applause, Stars)
"American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why."
- Vincente Minnelli
(Related: American, Popular, Stars, World)
"I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment."
- Maria Mitchell
(Related: Colors, Enjoyment, Learning, Stars)
"Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe."
- Maria Mitchell
(Related: Stars, Universe)
"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Freedom, Rights, Loss, Minority, Stars)
"I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time."
- Max Muller
(Related: Time, First, Stars)
"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."
- George Murray
(Related: Poets, Reality, Romantic, Stars, Thinking)
"Stars didn't have to worry as they were on long term contracts and were able to enjoy their vacations without worrying about tomorrow. Few had financial worries due to large incomes and little taxes."
- Pola Negri
(Related: Financial, Stars, Taxes, Tomorrow, Worry)
"Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries."
- Pola Negri
(Related: Living, Stars, Taxes, Today)
"Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street."
- Vince Neil
(Related: People, Stars)
"The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars."
- Paul Newman
(Related: Oil, Stars)
"The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place."
- Claude Nicollier
(Related: Energy, Eye, Night, Sky, Stars, Sun)
"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
- Leonard Nimoy
(Related: Existence, Exploration, Possibilities, Stars)
"The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years."
- Ruud van Nistelrooy
(Related: Stars, Years)
"There's no night without stars."
- Andre Norton
(Related: Night, Stars)
"Even rock stars are entitled to privacy."
- Michael Novak
(Related: Privacy, Stars)
"During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky."
- Paul Nurse
(Related: Attention, Sky, Stars, Winter)
"There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
- Barack Obama
(Related: War, People, America, Iraq, Stars, states, United)
"I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful."
- Donald O'Connor
(Related: Movies, Talent, Idea, Opportunity, Country, Public, Stars)
"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
(Related: Night, Past, Stars)
"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."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Science, Destiny, Earth, Fiction, Moon, Stars, Years)
"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Space, Stars, Sun)
"Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event."
- Heinz R. Pagels
(Related: Animals, May, Stars)
"There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too."
- Gwyneth Paltrow
(Related: Actors, Stars, Want)
"Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system."
- Gwyneth Paltrow
(Related: Women, People, Office, Stars)
"Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence."
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
(Related: Earth, Man, Stars, World)
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."
- Gilbert Parker
(Related: Love, Eyes, Stars)
"You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody."
- Trey Parker
(Related: Truth, People, Baseball, Old, Order, Stars)
"Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better."
- Scott Patterson
(Related: People, Famous, Trying, World)
"I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business."
- Rob Paulsen
(Related: Business, Love, Stars, Trouble, Years)
"I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy."
- Minnie Pearl
(Related: Attention, Caring, Fans, Stars)
"Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival."
- Austin Peck
(Related: Love, Film, Guest, Stars, Theater)
"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."
- William Lyon Phelps
(Related: God, Son, Hearing, Language, Man, Ocean, Sight, Stars)
"After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life."
- John Polkinghorne
(Related: Life, Evolution, Stars, Universe, Years)
"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Poetry, Night, Stars, Will, World)
"No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars."
- Llewelyn Powys
(Related: Eyes, Night, Provocative, Sight, Sky, Stars)
"Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars."
- Kelly Preston
(Related: Business, Friends, Nothing, Stars)
"I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues."
- Keanu Reeves
(Related: Work, Hope, Journey, Stars, Years)
"The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet."
- Walter Reisch
(Related: Science, Earth, Feet, Mystery, Right, Space, Stars)
"Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet."
- Walter Reisch
(Related: Science, Earth, Feet, Mystery, Right, Space, Stars)
"What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact."
- Jerome Richardson
(Related: Fact, Play, Stars)
"For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum."
- Charles Francis Richter
(Related: Energy, Example, Light, Stars)
"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."
- Sally Ride
(Related: Stars)
"Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Folly, Stars)
"But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation."
- Oscar Robertson
(Related: Stars, Television, Want)
"Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars."
- Oscar Robertson
(Related: People, Now, Stars, Trying, Want)
"Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Actions, Blame, Stars)
"These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before."
- Gene Roddenberry
(Related: Man, Mission)
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Eyes, Feet, Stars)
"America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black."
- Harold Rosenberg
(Related: People, Civilization, Performance, America, Past, Stars, Today, Youth)
"Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game."
- Charlotte Ross
(Related: Nothing, Stars)
"It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars."
- Mickey Rourke
(Related: Movies, Money, Actors, Stars)
"I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see."
- Josiah Royce
(Related: Stars, World)
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
- Babe Ruth
(Related: Success, May, Play, Stars, World, Worth)
"It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols."
- Meg Ryan
(Related: People, Flaws, Idols, Stars)
"Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege."
- Mark Rydell
(Related: Movies, Career, Privilege, Stars, Talking)
"The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed."
- Morley Safer
(Related: People, Stars)
"I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life."
- Morley Safer
(Related: Life, Care, Stars)
"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
- Carl Sagan
(Related: Night, Stars, Students, Sun)
"If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"
- Carl Sagan
(Related: Science, Reason, Stars, Universe)
"Turn your scars into stars."
- Robert H. Schuller
(Related: Stars)
"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them."
- Carl Schurz
(Related: Ideals, Sea)
"Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people."
- Bud Selig
(Related: People, America, Baseball, Influence, Stars, Youth)
"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Stars)
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Destiny, Stars)
"Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars."
- Artie Shaw
(Related: End, Moon, Stars)
"The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective."
- Frank Shorter
(Related: Successful, Children, Irony, Perspective, Stars)
"James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention."
- Gene Simmons
(Related: People, Attention)
"A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."
- Alexander Smith
(Related: Man, Mercy, Road, Stars)
"Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael."
- Barry Sonnenfeld
(Related: Day, Stars)
"Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department."
- Ann Sothern
(Related: Hollywood, Names, Personality, Publicity, Sense, Stars)
"Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record."
- Ronnie Spector
(Related: Stars)
"You know what shows today are missing? Stars."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Stars, Today)
"And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw."
- Edmund Spenser
(Related: Stars)
"I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself."
- Willie Stargell
(Related: Stars)
"Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: Competition, Stars)
"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Stars)
"They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Games, Stars)
"I think people of lesser talent will become stars."
- Howard Stern
(Related: Talent, People, Stars, Will)
"Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years."
- Ben Stiller
(Related: Car, Years)
"The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find."
- Ben Stiller
(Related: Cliches)
"Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more."
- Sharon Stone
(Related: Business, Work, People, Friends, Popular, Stars)
"And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars."
- William Styron
(Related: Stars)
"I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Thought, Hollywood, Stars)
"As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years."
- Major Taylor
(Related: Careers, Habits, Living, Remarkable, Reward, Stars, Years)
"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."
- Mother Teresa
(Related: Nature, God, Friend, Flowers, Moon, Silence, Stars, Sun, Trees)
"Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Men, Fame, Stars)
"There's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars."
- Justin Timberlake
(Related: Nothing, Stars, Wrong)
"I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun!"
- Charles Hanson Towne
(Related: Day, Eyes)
"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."
- Brian Tracy
(Related: Strength, Stars)
"You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars."
- Thomas Traherne
(Related: Sea, Stars, World)
"Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower."
- Georg Trakl
(Related: Autumn, Stars)
"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
- Georg Trakl
(Related: Evil, Stars)
"Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play."
- Lee Trevino
(Related: Chicago, Cowboys, Living, Play, Stars)
"I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone."
- Donald Trump
(Related: Stars)
"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."
- Sojourner Truth
(Related: Brothers, Moon, Sisters, Stars)
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
- Harriet Tubman
(Related: Change, Dream, Strength, Passion, Patience, Stars, World)
"We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars."
- Ivan Turgenev
(Related: Stars)
"You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented."
- John Turturro
(Related: Self, Stars)
"Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment."
- Liv Tyler
(Related: Mom, People, Childhood, Stars)
"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."
- Hunter Tylo
(Related: Moon, Stars, Years)
"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Dream, Clouds, Stars)
"I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made."
- Bruce Vilanch
(Related: Nothing, Stars)
"My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul."
- Tim Vine
(Related: Soul)
"The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Stars)
"In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature."
- Alexander Walker
(Related: Nature, Film, Human nature, Stars)
"When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions."
- Mort Walker
(Related: Thought, Problems, Stars)
"I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in."
- Mort Walker
(Related: Stars)
"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: People, Night, Stars)
"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Comparisons, Night, Right, Stars, Universe, Wrong)
"We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them."
- John Webster
(Related: Stars, Tennis)
"The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man."
- Otto Weininger
(Related: Women, Appreciation, Man, Sense, Sky, Stars)
"Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things."
- Peter Weir
(Related: Work, Business, People, Bugs, Houses, Security, Stars)
"Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support."
- Ryan White
(Related: Athletes, Giving, Stars, Support)
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
- Walt Whitman
(Related: Journey, Stars)
"Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America."
- Sue Wicks
(Related: America, College, Stars, Television)
"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world."
- Kate D. Wiggins
(Related: Life, Mother, Brothers, Rainbows, Roses, Sisters, Stars, World)
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Stars)
"An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay."
- Robbie Williams
(Related: Gay, Stars)
"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."
- E. O. Wilson
(Related: Astronomy, Stars)
"I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Life, Mind, Stars)
"Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script."
- Robert Wise
(Related: Character, Sense, Stars)
"I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Home, Film, Stars)
"At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Night, Sea, Sky, Space, Stars)
"There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Actors, Stars, Want)
"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars."
- William Wordsworth
(Related: Pride, Stars)
"It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses."
- Jennifer Wyatt
(Related: Attention)
"How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart."
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Kiss, Heart, First, Old, Stars)
"Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?"
- Isabel Yosito
(Related: Love, Moon, Night, Stars)
"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."
- Edward Young
(Related: Stars)
"A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Stars, Talk)