Quotes About Celestial

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

In the sky, Planet Moon is 239,000 miles away. That's not far when you remember that the sun is 93 million miles away.

Liberado de todas las pasiones terrenas que engendra el tumulto de la vida social, mi alma se elevaría frecuentemente por encima de esta atmósfera, y comerciaría por anticipado con las inteligencias celestes cuyo número espera ir a aumentar dentro de poco.

My world is the heavens, both by day and by night.

Poor old Venus didn't even make her own light, Dad said. She shone only from reflected light.

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

It's wonderful to hear strings on 'Planet Claire'.

If stars behave in an erratic fashion, it's called 'colorful,' as opposed to, 'Well, maybe there's a problem there.'

Stars, hard bits of diamond light.

He had been vaguely pinning his redemption on the upcoming eclipse, hoping for something somehow transformative, or at least something greater than a wow and brow-furrowed appreciation of celestial mechanics.

Music has an alchemical quality. And there's more than one voice on the piano. You have two hands. One can be playing a celestial melody while the other is doing quite the opposite. The joining of the profane and the sacred, or the passionate and the compassionate, happens right there on the keyboard.

If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.

It is not for us to decide the fate of angels.

Moon!" he sang happily as he saw her approaching. "Moon moon moon mooooon pies.

Did you see the comet about half a year ago?" she asked. "The one that looked like an extra moon in the sky?

The setting sun had turned the blue sky a brilliant orange, then soft pink merging to pearl; the plum velvet of night had come out of the east, spangled with stars.

Perhaps it's the return of Saturn. Every twenty-nine years the planet returns to the same point in the sky that it occupied at the moment of our birth.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora

And the stars look very different today.

I'm just a cosmic yob, I suppose.

My soul is in the sky.