The Moon Quotes

When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.

Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes?

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it!

If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?

The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.

What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?

Like we were connected, the echo of his pain twisted inside inside me. his pain, my pain.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

Cath ate the banana and held on to his gaze. “I’d give you the moon right now,” she said. Levi’s eyes flashed happily, and he hitched up an eyebrow. “Yeah, but would you slay it for me?

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.

As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

The moon is made of a green cheese.

The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for?

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?' 'You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE.

I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.