Quotes About Lunar

#1. He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights, each one perilous as a lunar journey. He

James Salter

#2. Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

Lemony Snicket

#4. I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

Henry Spencer

#6. Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.

Gene Cernan

#7. The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work.

Henry Spencer

#8. I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape ... It makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away it really is a small planet.

Frank Borman

#9. Lunar mining is absolutely critical for the development of fusion sources. I'm a very strong proponent of the development of nuclear power, of fusion power.

Kesha Rogers

#10. Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight - a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.

Stephenie Meyer

#11. On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.

Amy Tan

#12. I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

Woody Allen

#13. It began with meetings, five months before the Apollo 11 launch. The newly formed Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing gathered to debate the appropriateness of planting a flag on the moon.

Mary Roach

#14. But Angel and I both know that one day Lunar will want to kick; he will want to live and be what he is supposed to be.

Sarah Lean

#15. The streetlights had already lit up on Bronnaya, and a golden moon hung over the Patriarchs. In the ever deceiving lunar light, it appeared to Ivan Nikolayevich that, instead of a cane, the professor stood holding a sword under his arm.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#16. One of the oldest mythological fables tells of Mercury playing at dice with Selene and winning from her the five days of the epact (thus totaling the 365 days of the year and harmonizing the lunar and solar calendars).

Richard Arnold Epstein

#17. It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

Neil Armstrong

#18. I see a global ancient religion which was marked with its rebellious spirit against the higher authorities. It expressed itself temporally (Solar/Lunar), physically (Skulls/Tridents) and linguistically (Sun/Son/Sn) across the whole world.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#19. Not doing pictures these days?" Jacin muttered as they hurried through the shop. "How very Lunar of you."
Cinder glared against the sudden, burning sunlight. "Very wanted criminal of me too.

Marissa Meyer

#20. Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate.

Nicholas Roe

#21. Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.

Graham Hawkes

#22. Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'

Alan Bean

#23. We are full of rhythms ... our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

Yehudi Menuhin

#24. The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful.

Thomas Hardy

#25. It had been an annoyingly peacful time in Boarderland, Blister cranky and despressed because he hadn't filled anyone with pus for nearly an enitre lunar cycle.

Frank Beddor

#26. Time. She had to go home. As soon as the lunar eclipse occurred in three weeks. Because if she stayed here, she would die. Either from the bullet in her back, or from the pain that was slowly sinking talons into her.

Shelly Thacker

#27. Time is always fleeting and the lunar phases represent that visually for me. What people take away from that and how they apply it within their own lives, that's entirely up to them.

Jacob Bannon

#28. The scented cloud permeates the air and coats our tongues, triggering images: licorice tobacco and a seductive fae with an agenda, ocean salt and a mortal boy's sweat, maple syrup and a father's love, a mother's sacrifice and a lunar garden rich with lilies and honeysuckle.

A.G. Howard

#29. What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Norman Cousins

#30. I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

Douglas Brinkley

#31. Scientists peered into data and concluded that we should all be worried.
-Lunar planet

Bret Easton Ellis

#32. From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.

Peter Diamandis

#33. Supplying fuel for a Mars expedition from the lunar surface is often suggested, but it's hard to make it pay off - Moon bases are expensive, and just buying more rockets to launch fuel from Earth is relatively cheap.

Henry Spencer

#34. I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said was that you cannot count lunar craters by counting 2, 3, 5, 7 ...

Galileo Galilei

#35. I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

Naveen Jain

#36. Sometimes it's like that. I go, 'You know what? I'm going to just change scales. I'm going to even change instruments. And I'm going to go into the chromatics of the Spanish language,' and I do. You know, the poem is totally different. It's like a lunar voice versus a day voice, a solar voice.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#37. This is a vast frontier that's going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated.

James Cameron

#38. The location of Giza and more specifically that of the Great Pyramid is not random in reference to the three only holy sites of Islam. The lunar year's quantity itself was encoded therein.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#39. The original specifications for Apollo navigation called for the ability to fly a complete mission, including a lunar landing, with no help from Earth - none, not even voice communications.

Henry Spencer

#40. Fire rises out of the lunar mountains: when she is cold, I'll carry her up to a peak, and lay her down on the edge of a crater.

Charlotte Bronte

#41. Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

Tom Robbins

#42. Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

Paul Davies

#43. There is a loneliness that fills the plain.
Total.
Lunar.

Anne Carson

#44. The reason why the Great Pyramid of Giza has Earth's circumference figure embedded in it is not because ancient Egyptians knew that number, but because they were observing the horizon and the lunar movement.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#45. On rare occasions, we'll still align. I will pass through your shadow and bask in your sunlight; my face awash in gold and red and I'll remember the way things were. But lunar eclipses, they're few and far between and they're not enough to save us.

Stephanie Georgopulos

#46. Oblong stones sink
slow and sideways. Shaped
by the weight of waves,
dutifully vibrating nature's
lunar-bound graces,
they wash ashore only for
closed palms to forsake them.
The cheerful will
cherish them, place them
on windowsills, or on graves.

Kristen Henderson

#47. Soon, the whole world would be searching for her
Linh Cinder.
A deformed cyborg with a missing foot.
A Lunar with a stolen identity.
A mechanic with no one to run to, nowhere to go.
But they will be looking for a ghost.

Marissa Meyer

#48. we have forgotten what night tastes like,
salted by full moon silver rupturing
the dark. we have forgotten how the skin
sings when the lunar fervor unfurls
across its follicles.

Beth Morey

#49. She wasn't just a cyborg anymore. She was Lunar now. She could make people see things that weren't there. Feel things they shouldn't feel. Do things they didn't mean to do.

Marissa Meyer

#50. The sea is not all that responds to the moon. Twice a day the solid earth bobs up and down, as much as a foot. That kind of force and that kind of distance are more than enough to break hard rock. Wells will flow faster during lunar high tides.

John McPhee

#51. The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas, 1968, became the first men ever to set eyes upon the Lunar Farside, told me that they had been tempted to radio back the discovery of a large black monolith: alas, discretion prevailed.

Arthur C. Clarke

#52. Kai's date to the Commonwealth's ball last year, and it had been ... terrifying. But also extraordinary. The people of Earth still weren't sure what to do with the fact that one of their beloved leaders was not so secretly dating a Lunar, and a cyborg Lunar at that.

Marissa Meyer

#53. The future was glorious once. It was filled with sleek silver spaceships, lunar colonies, and galactic empires. The horizon seemed within reach; we could almost grasp the stars if we would but try.

Kevin J. Anderson

#54. The Moon would shine as brightly as the midmorning sun, and by the end of the two minutes, the lunar regolith would be heated to a glow.

Randall Munroe

#55. On the technical side, Apollo 8 was mainly a test flight for the Saturn V and the Apollo spacecraft. The main spacecraft system that needed testing on a real lunar flight was the onboard navigation system.

Henry Spencer

#56. Oh, Iko ... what happened?" "More stupid Lunar guards, that's what happened. He cornered me in the basement of the med-clinic and did this. I had to play dead until he left me alone. Good thing they have no idea how to kill an android here.

Marissa Meyer

#57. Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.

Marissa Meyer

#58. The base sides of the Great Pyramid of Giza referred to the solar calendar while the backbone of the structure itself (manifested in the whole design emanating from the base diagonal figure) was modeled according to the measure of the lunar year.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#59. A map of the moon ... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences; and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces.

James Dwight Dana

#60. That's not necessary. I'm doing what any good friend would do, out of loyalty and Lunar patriotism and--"
"I'll buy you a new pair of shoes."
"Sold.

Marissa Meyer

#61. [Ezekiel 1:1a] Hebrew On the fifth day of the fourth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. A number of dates in Ezekiel can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Babylonian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This event occurred on July 31, 593 B.C.

Anonymous

#62. A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

Robert Frost

#63. The cool enchantment of evening has arrived after the prostrating heat of summer's day and we lie quietly in anticipation of Your luminous appearance - Mysterious Selene, Whose Lunar Orb relieves the dark of night.

Lady Svetlana

#64. The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

#65. Lunar Eclipse doesn't that sound like a car you can only drive at night?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#66. Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

Maureen Dowd

#67. Where you stand on issues, how you live your life, and how much good you can do in the world are greater challenges than a lunar mission.

Al Worden

#68. Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'

Buzz Aldrin

#69. The Jewish calendar, which is lunar, is a calendar of witness. The Sanhedrin, Jewry's Congress, met in Jerusalem toward the end of every month to wait for the new moon.

Joshua Cohen

#70. Lunar Geology Rocks.

Homer Hickam

#71. In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment.

Tom Shields

#72. I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in temperature and more daylight hours.

Charles Duke

#73. The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

Henry David Thoreau

#74. The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade
now bright and sunny
But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon
so called
of honey!

Thomas Hood

#75. Regarding Her Majesty, Queen Levana, has she or any of the Lunar court commented on the escape of the convict?"
Kai's jaw tensed. "Oh, she's had a thing or two to say about it.

Marissa Meyer

#76. There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.

Buzz Aldrin

#77. Once every lunar eclipse, you should be able to see me smile!

Sophie Turner

#78. Lunar. Cyborg. Fugitive. Outlaw. Outcast.

Marissa Meyer

#79. seems to have been somewhat glowing white (ionizing the atmosphere directly next to it), but was close enough to the lunar surface to cast its equally elongated shadow. (NASA photo No. 16-19238.) Even after the two Earthside superpowers did not return to the

Ingo Swann

#80. There's a lunar eclipse late Friday." Alisha said. "I hope everybody has their emotional body armor ready. Things are about to get intense.

Lee Fishman

#81. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go,
And view the ocean leaning on the sky:
From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know,
And on the Lunar world securely pry.

John Dryden

#82. If she was alive, she would be the rightful heir to the Lunar throne. She could end Levana's reign. She could save them all.

Marissa Meyer

#83. We enter a time of calamity. Blood on the tarmac. Fingers in the juicer. Towers of air frozen in the lunar wastes. Models dead on the runways, with their legs facing backward. Children with smiles that can't be undone. Chicken shall rot in the aisles. See the pillars fall.

M T Anderson

#84. But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.

Marissa Meyer

#85. And "Immortality"
mildews ...
in the museums of the moon

Mina Loy

#86. Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Neil Armstrong

#87. I am capable of choosing my battles, if that's what it takes to win the war.

Marissa Meyer

#88. I haven't used my glamour since I was twelve years old," she whispered, gaze piercing as if it were very important to her that Scarlet understand this. "Not since I was old enough to control it. That's why the visions come to me. That's why I'm going mad.

Marissa Meyer

#89. When Rapunzel saw the prince, she fell over him and began to weep, and her tears dropped into his eyes

Marissa Meyer

#90. The witch snipped off her golden hair and cast her out into a great desert

Marissa Meyer

#91. Thoughts have power, influencing humanity's collective path. The difference between Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler lies, ultimately, in how they thought. A thought can change the world for the better - or damn it forever.

Diane Shauer

#92. The other girl, Iko, cupped her chin with both hands. This is so much better than a net drama.

Marissa Meyer

#93. Come here, baby sister," she whispered, and despite the terror twisting inside Levana's stomach, her feet obeyed. "I want to show you something.

Marissa Meyer

#94. It was always the A booth. It was always the front seat of the roller coaster. It was never Let's not get the bottle of Cristal.

Bret Easton Ellis

#95. I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.

Marissa Meyer

#96. At least we have each other. He held out his arms, like he would have given her a huge hug if they hadn't been strapped into their seats. The nose of the ship tipped to the right and he quickly grasped the controls again, leveling it out just in time to dodge flock of pigeons.

Marissa Meyer

#97. Haven't we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren't we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever?

Bret Easton Ellis

#98. They had stood against all adversity to be together, and now they would forge their own path to love. She would be Kai's wife. She would be the Commonwealth's empress. And she had every intention of being blissfully happy for ever, ever after.

Marissa Meyer

#99. Kai scooped his arm around her shoulders and led her out of the queen's chambers. "I was just thinking about the good future," he said. "The one with you in it.

Marissa Meyer

#100. She would be brave. She would be heroic. She would make her own destiny.

Marissa Meyer