Quotes About Celestial Navigation

#1. Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

Henry Miller

#2. One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.
(from 'Celestial Navigation')

Anne Tyler

#3. Write like the whole world's reading..."

Lillian White

Lillian White

#4. I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

Raymond Pettibon

#5. You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.

Errol Flynn

#6. YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.

Terry Pratchett

#7. The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.

George Dzundza

#8. Now there were no more stories to tell, to soothe, to comfort, to draw strangers close together; to link like hearts and minds.

Melanie Benjamin

#9. I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

Tama Janowitz

#10. And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.

Victor Borge

#11. To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#12. Playing the cello did feel nicely neolithic, or at least a civilized way to process the primitive.

Eric Siblin