Quotes About Eclipse

Oh, I'm with the government all right," said Serge. "But when I say 'with,' I mean in the context of I'm in favor of it because otherwise there are no streets or postage stamps, and everyone wanders the woods carrying their own mail and looking at the sun to know when to eat until there's an eclipse and everyone's blind. That's why you should vote.

Her past, she fears, is eclipsing her present.

What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!

As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full.

Lincoln's "campaign" for president ended how and where it began: in adamant silence, and in the same Illinois city to which he had so tenaciously clung since the national convention. Like the solar eclipse that had obscured the Illinois sun in July, Lincoln remained in Springfield, hidden in full view.

The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse Light after light goes out. One evil star, Luridly glaring through the smoke of war, As in the dream of the Apocalypse, Drags others down.

Sometimes, when the sun is shining, it's daytime,"Robert snapped. "And sometimes, when it's dark, it's because there's an eclispe,"Leslie snapped back.

when love is eclipsed by power, the somber hues of shame darken life

In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world.

eclipsed and forgotten by Mussolini's brief but disastrous alliance with Hitler.

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.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

The Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) understood what he was seeing at the time of a lunar eclipse: 'The church says the earth is flat, but I know it is round for I have seen its shadow on the moon and I have more faith in a shadow than the church.

If there were no sun, all the stars would not suffice to prevent its being night.

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Con una solemnidad digna de tiras cómicas clásicas, Colón aprovecha su conocimiento de un inminente eclipse lunar. Varado desde hace ocho meses en la costa de Jamaica, ya no logra convencer a los indios de que le traigan comida gratis; los amenaza entonces con robarles la luna y, la noche del 29 de febrero de 1504, empieza a poner en ejecución su amenaza, ante los ojos aterrados de los caciques… El éxito es inmediato.

Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun.

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon.

Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

You don't want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore.

But Mehrunnisa did not know then, would never know, by giving her blessings to this marriage she had set into progress a chain of events that would eventually erase her name from history's pages. Or that Arjumand would become the only Mughal woman posterity would easily recognize. Docile, seemingly tractable and troublesome Arjumand would eclipse even Mehrunnisa, cast her in a shadow...because of the monument Khurram would build in Arjumand's memory - the Taj Mahal.