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Quotes About Nova

I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
~ Joseph Monninger
They're Hive Monks,' said Nova.
~ Philip Reeve
The covering of insects is not solid,' said Nova cheerfully. 'Plenty of air gets in.' 'What do you know? You don't need to breathe! They'll get into my mouth.' 'No they w--' she said, and broke off spluttering. 'Pleugh, eugh!
~ Philip Reeve
In that part of the book of my memory before which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, "Incipit Vita Nova [The new life begins]."
~ Dante Alighieri
The Blind Watchmaker, by the same producer, gave me a new respect for his profession. At their best, Horizon producers (some of their programmes can be seen in America, often repackaged under the name Nova)
~ Richard Dawkins
Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan Hearse; A Deadly Shade of Gold; Conjure Wife; Rosemary's Baby; Silverlock; King Conan. He'd packed books not to entertain, nor even to illustrate philosophies of life, but to rebuild civilization.
~ Larry Niven
Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.
~ Howard Bloom
Turning the planet into what astrophysicists called a pocket nova.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Benedick considered his earlier thoughts about Nova's serenity and undeveloped personality. He wasn't sure he'd ever heard an angel sound miserably worried before. They were voices of authority, arrogance, comfort, calm-or at least, they always had been.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Rien had been the beloved of Perceval, and so Nova, too, had loved the Captain beyond the love that Angels had been built to suffer.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Where was the star? Take concepts like "distant," "isolate," "faint," and give them precise mathematical expression. They'll vanish under such articulation. But just before they do, that's where it lay. "My star." Lorq swept vanes aside so they could see. "That's my sun. That's my nova, with eight-hundred-year-old-light.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I would love to be remembered for ridding the world of disease, but my knowledge of science comes from episodes of 'Nova' and shows on the Discovery Channel. I don't think a superficial understanding of shark behavior and black holes can help cure diseases.
~ Miriam Shor
There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.
~ Babyface
I'll always be a small-town boy from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
~ James Tupper
The glittering stars in her eyes were going nova, like they weren't merely reflecting light but, instead, projecting it.
~ Daniel Waters
I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.
~ Peter MacKay
Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.
~ Frederic Joliot-Curie
Walking into Nova Hollywood, I remembered why I didn't come here more often. I like a good slice of cheese as much as the next guy, but this place would be too cheesy for a giant mutant rat who had been starving for a week.
~ John Zakour