Quotes About Betelgeuse

#1. I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.

Edward Abbey

#2. That night, stargazing on the deck with Dad, eyes on the sky, he pointed out Orion, Betelgeuse. "It's an art to read the stars, baby."
I never wanted to leave his side-my sure song for so long. Now? His eyes are stone changed. Just looking at them hurts my heart.

Norma Fox Mazer

#3. Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to the one sure end.

Keri Hulme

#4. He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up a small yellow fish and offering to put it in his ear he had been able to see just a small packet of cornflakes. But he couldn't, and he didn't feel safe.

Douglas Adams

#5. Thereafter, staggering semiparalytic down the night streets, he would often ask passing policemen if they knew the way to Betelgeuse.

Douglas Adams

#6. If your mind is still ... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.

Ryan Giggs

#8. Take a picture of God, tack it on the wall and see who bows.

Laird Barron

#9. Educated: no. Stupid: yes.
And when I say "stupid," I mean stupid fresh.

Ad-Rock

#10. Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

Dougray Scott

#11. If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.

Marion Barry

#12. You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

William Faulkner

#13. The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online.

Reza Aslan

#14. Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

Luther Burbank

#15. With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.

Helen Mirren

#16. We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Barack Obama