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Quotes About Celestial

a mint sky with chocolate chip stars
~ Terri Guillemets
Little is to be expected of that day... to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly-acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bells...
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
a flaming angel
~ Greg Cox
The stars are dead, but their memories fill the sky
~ Gregory Galloway
Her eyes were dancing like those of angels.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Je buvais à pleins verres les étoiles
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Je suis ivre d'avoir bu tout l'univers.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
The proper term is "occultation." The moon occults the sun, casting a small shadow onto the surface of the earth. It is not a solar eclipse, but in fact an eclipse of the earth.
~ Guillermo del Toro
The term "solar eclipse" is in fact a misnomer. An eclipse occurs when one object passes into a shadow cast by another. In a solar eclipse, the moon does not pass into the sun's shadow, but instead passes between the sun and the earth, obscuring the sun—
~ Guillermo del Toro
Secret Self is your royal nature. Like the kingly condition that it is, it knows about you what you have yet to learn about yourself. Let it reveal to you its secret kingdom. It belongs to you. You receive a portion of this kingdom each time you refuse to be captured by the common and choose instead in favor of the celestial. The stars are your birthright. We must look beyond the sparrow to the skies through which it wings.
~ Guy Finley
In reasonably simple form, galactic orbits can be treated like the orbits of planets around a sun, with one exception: the central gravity source is not a point, but a disk with thickness in three dimensions.
~ James Gleick
A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.
~ James Joyce
People have discovered asteroids in the Main Belt that outgas like comets, and things on cometary orbits that no longer outgas - that don't have tails. We're finding all of these unique cases.
~ Carrie Nugent
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
Bubbles are round for the same reason that planets are spherical. The universe itself is like bubbles.
~ Tom Noddy
Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.
~ Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
A star on its worst day shines brighter than the moon on its best day.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A star is a rock that could no longer hide its beauty from the world.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is foolish for the moon to compete with the sun for the spotlight.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason.
~ Heidi Hammel
I mean astronomically, that one doesn't even make sense. Because if you shoot for the moon, you're not going to land on the stars. The moon is closer than all of the stars.
~ Logan Paul
This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
~ Pierre Corneille
More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
We are all made up of stars and all of us are billions of years old - that's what I believe, at least.
~ Sarah Brightman