Top 100 Quotes About Venus
#1. My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.
Abdellatif Kechiche
#2. I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign ... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
Ted Dexter
#3. It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
Jean Racine
#4. Actually, I really wanted to play against Venus because I have so much respect for both Serena and Venus.
Elena Vesnina
#5. Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.
James Joyce
#6. When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
Lactantius
#7. On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#8. Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.
Serena Williams
#9. Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;
We know not what we do, and while we're young
We have the right to live and love like gods.
Ovid
#11. The atmosphere of Venus consists of ammonia, sulfur, and nitric oxide. Man must have lived there once.
Andre Brie
#12. The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity.
Jacque Fresco
#13. Love me until Venus gasps with envy.
Love me again until Eros swears celibacy.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#14. At least she was not a tall woman. She was a pixie, a pocket Venus.
Ann Patchett
#15. And Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.
D.H. Lawrence
#16. Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.
Janet Flanner
#17. That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.
Catherynne M Valente
#18. The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.
Tom Verlaine
#19. Turn over that stone" - she pointed to a flint nearby - "and you will find a charlatan who will dazzle you with the favorable conjunction of Mercury and Venus, flatter your future, and sell you colored water for a gold piece. I can't be bothered with it. From me you get the actuality.
Ariana Franklin
#20. In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.
Eva Green
#21. Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford
#22. He nurse the illusion that he is one of the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, and hopes that the French Government may be persuaded to buy him.
Saki
#23. Venus favors the bold.
Ovid
#24. Hey, Venus, I have two words for you,' Aphrodite said.
Venus hesitated and glanced over her shoulder at her ex-roommate. Aphrodite smiled her best mean-bitch sneer and said, 'Re. Bound.' She paused and gave a bithy smirk and then said, 'Good luck with that.
P.C. Cast
#25. I hate my muscles. I'm not Venus Williams. I'm not Serena Williams, I don't want to look like they look.
Anna Kournikova
#26. Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you ... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.
Craig Ferguson
#27. In 1962, a typo by a NASA programmer resulted in Mariner 1 being sent into the ocean rather than its intended destination, Venus. The cause was a missed hyphen.
Drummond Moir
#28. I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#29. For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the top 10, but you can still feel she can be back again.
Elena Vesnina
#30. Everything. The good things... As well as the bad. - Makoto Inaba (Love For Venus)
Yuki Nakaji
#31. My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!
Richard M. Nixon
#32. The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus ... Or anywhere else is waiting for.
Randy Savage
#33. Her kind was supposed to be irresistibly alluring to humans. She was the humanoid equivalent of a Venus flytrap.
Sarah Beth Durst
#34. All the sea-gods are dead.
You, Venus, come home
To your salt maidenhead ...
Allen Tate
#35. The last thin paring of the old moon hung over the distant mountains to the west. Venus had moved away. With dark a gauzy swarm of stars. He could not guess what they were for so many.
Cormac McCarthy
#36. I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations. Referring to his pioneering telescope observations.
Galileo Galilei
#37. Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
Ben Jonson
#38. In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's 'habitable zone' - a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface.
Seth Shostak
#39. The planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me and in the stillness the regular sound of my footsteps striking the pavement was like a the rhythmic beating of a giant stone heart.
Gore Vidal
#40. An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.
Mark Twain
#41. The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.
Jacque Fresco
#42. Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
Robert Hunter
#43. You know, I've worked out that if I lived on Mercury I'd be sixty-six years old tomorrow. I'd be twenty-six on Venus, and half a year old on Saturn. I'm only sixteen because I'm on this planet.
Holly Smale
#44. Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
Michel De Montaigne
#45. As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.
Jay Samit
#46. I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.
Elena Vesnina
#47. Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs ... many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#48. Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood
Robert Greene
#49. Men are from Mars and women from Venus. Kids arrive when orbits collide.
Shikha Kaul
#50. In Valentine's Day or in any other day, the brightest star is not Venus or Jupiter but the very love in people's heart!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
Emma Goldman
#52. Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.
Michio Kaku
#54. Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It's bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#55. The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.
Nostradamus
#56. Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#57. Poor old Venus didn't even make her own light, Dad said. She shone only from reflected light.
Jeannette Walls
#58. Thus a man looking through a tremendous telescope does not see the cirri of an Indian summer above his charmed orchard, but does see, as my regretted colleague, the late Professor Alexander Ivanchenko, twice saw, the swarming of hesperozoa in a humid valley of the planet Venus.
Vladimir Nabokov
#59. It was magic, I felt the bond between us.
She was a jelly to my peanuts, Mars to Venus,
The Earth to my sun, moon and stars,
We added up mathematically ...
It's like I had a bad habit, B!
Ghostface Killah
#60. The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it ... when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.
Doris Lessing
#61. Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.
Tracy Austin
#62. Good one," said Ron, copying it down. "Because of . . . erm . . . Mercury. Why don't you get stabbed in the back by someone you thought was a friend?" "Yeah . . . cool . . ." said Harry, scribbling it down, "because . . . Venus is in the twelfth house.
J.K. Rowling
#63. The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.
Jacque Fresco
#64. Venus, taking pity on the artist Pygmalion when he fell hopelessly in love with his statue, granted his fondest wish and turned the statue into a beautiful woman, Galatea.
Michio Kaku
#65. Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.
Sarah Zettel
#66. I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap ...
Tori Amos
#67. So men are not from Mars, nor are women from Venus. Men and women are from Africa, the cradle of our evolution, where they evolved together as a single species.
Steven Pinker
#68. On Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the moons of Jupiter, human beings were more free - free to found their own petty nations and ruin their own lives their own way. But
Brian W. Aldiss
#69. If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#70. I guess that the goddess Venus wasn't on my side with this fine specimen of the male gender!
Adele Rose
#71. I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.
Chris Pratt
#72. So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
Bayard Taylor
#73. The Plastic People of the Universe played 'Venus in Furs' from Velvet Underground, and I knew everything was basically okay.
Tom Stoppard
#74. [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.
Riane Eisler
#75. The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#76. Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.
Nina Arianda
#77. My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
Pat Cadigan
#78. Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.
Eugene Delacroix
#79. An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
Marge Piercy
#80. I want to stick in live television. And I'm hoping to continue on in a second season of Rock Star. Plus, I've got my 'Barely Brooke' swimsuit line with Venus USA and my new calendar is coming out.
Brooke Burke
#81. Far from being a magic nostrum, true love, so-called, was a lingering illness, a clash of cold steel, a take no-prisoners war between Venus and Mars.
Nina Mason
#83. Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.
Anais Nin
#84. When I was a child, I was certain that I could remember what it was like to live on Venus; I could remember what it was like to live in the American Plains. I could remember. And it's ancient memory. We all have it. It's just that some of us access it more than others.
Patti Smith
#85. I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
A.S. Byatt
#87. The Venus Factor weight loss system has nothing to do with silly exercise machines, cardio, restrictive or pre-packaged diets, or whatever weird berry pill the diet industry is talking about these days.
John Barban
#88. Observation: there was absolutely nothing to see on Venus. Conclusion: it must be covered with life.
Carl Sagan
#89. I passed through this stage years ago on Venus, where I was so unfashionable that eventually I almost convinced myself I no longer cared that nobody wanted me; but recent events have reawakened my need for intimacy.
Charles Stross
#90. You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication
because, of course, astrology is rubbish.
Quentin Crisp
#91. I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
Tanith Lee
#92. The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."
William Hazlitt
#93. Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope
#94. Venus, it turns out, is broiling hot. There are no swamps, no oil fields, no seltzer oceans. With insufficient data, it is easy to go wrong.
Carl Sagan
#95. But, Venus, isn't that just part of love?" Pea asked gently. "You have to be vulnerable to truly be loved.
P.C. Cast
#96. In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.
Edmund Spenser
#97. I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.
Jim Butcher
#98. The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#99. My old partner was there. He got off too. Then he went back later. When it hit Venus.
James S.A. Corey
#100. 1824: "Let everyone in love come and see. I want to break Venus's ribs with clubs and cripple the goddess's loins. If she can strike through my soft chest, then why can't I smash her head with a club?
Leland Gregory
