Outshining All The Stars Quotes

#1. Fun fact: The planet Venus- aka, the 'morning star' when it appears before sunrise, outshining all the stars in the heavens-was once known as Luciferin.
Funner fact: The chemical that makes fireflies' butts light up is called luciferin

Jeri Smith-Ready

#2. Avoid outshining the master. All superiority is odious, but the superiority of a subject over his prince is not only stupid, it is fatal. This is a lesson that the stars in the sky teach us - they may be related to the sun, and just as brilliant, but they never appear in her company.

Baltasar Gracian

#3. Always give but never expect. Giving is happiness; disappointment is sadness.

Debasish Mridha

#4. There's more of them up there!" Thomas screamed in his ear from behind. "You have to stop! They'll kill you! They'll kill all of us!

James Dashner

#5. Looking on oneself as something alien, forgetting the sight, remembering the gaze.

Franz Kafka

#6. I realized I had never been alone like this before.

Rebecca Donovan

#7. It occurred to me that with all of today's technologies, there were now more ways than ever to know with abosolute certainty that no one wanted to get in touch with me

Linwood Barclay

#8. Later that evening, Norma Jeane said good night to Bill and returned home. Standing before a mirror she picked up a lipstick and scribbled, 'This is the end of Norma Jeane.' Marilyn Monroe was born.

Michelle Morgan Spady

#9. No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

Christian Jarrett

#10. My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

Esperanza Spalding

#11. The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Dave Barry

#12. I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I might have got a little nervous if I was alone for a day or two in a row. I might think, "Where are they?" Now, I just go on doing naturally what I do.

Jack Nicholson

#13. Capital dictates the fate of humanity.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#14. What boy could resist you?"
"Will's hardly a boy."
"Don't give me that. He's a boy playing a game," Norris said. "The oldest game there is.

Caragh M. O'Brien