Quotes About Celestial

the Kuiper belt, a region of icy asteroids past the orbit of Neptune, drawing an entourage of rocks in its wake and splashing them across the earth. The Kuiper belt contained over thirty thousand asteroids larger than a hundred kilometers in diameter, along with being the home to many short-period comets like the famous Halley's comet.

And Hislop?' said Lymond softly. 'Don't sound so aggrieved. There are no rewards, celestial or mundane, for the best display of pure, bloody inquisitiveness.' Which drove Ludovic d'Harcourt to a deduction, five minutes later, as Daniel Hislop marched into his room. 'Let me make a guess. He is awake.' 'He's awake. The honeymoon,' said Danny, 'is over.

Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one – more popular than The Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters

Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one—more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Coluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who Is This God Person Anyway?

O bountiful Night, housekeeper of heaven's embroidery.

the gibbous moon glowed bloodred in the sky

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

eyes scanned the heavens, and he found familiar

She named him after the Dog Star, the brightest star in the night sky.

An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.

Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun.

If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

syzygys in the heavens and Krishna, who misses none

I like reading about the astronomical and celestial world a lot.

Even your chin is made up of exploded stars.

Instar implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.

However beautiful the stars of a suddenly visible night sky, few nowadays could find their way by them.

The moon loved them. Not because they were beautiful, or because they were perfect, or because they were perky, but because they were her darling daughters.

We would not waste time saying so because nobody, so far as I know, worships teapots;fn4 but, if pressed, we would not hesitate to declare our strong belief that there is positively no orbiting teapot. Yet strictly we should all be teapot agnostics: we cannot prove, for sure, that there is no celestial teapot. In practice, we move away from teapot agnosticism towards a-teapotism.

the moon. Just a curved sliver of light, like the door of heaven had been left slightly ajar.

the sun is within me and so is the moon

He determinado para la luna fases, hasta que se pone como la palma seca. No le está bien al sol alcanzar a la luna, ni a la noche adelantar al día: cada uno navega en su propia órbita»

Oh no,' said the moon, 'time means very little to me.