Sun Eclipse Quotes

#1. The term "solar eclipse" is in fact a misnomer. An eclipse occurs when one object passes into a shadow cast by another. In a solar eclipse, the moon does not pass into the sun's shadow, but instead passes between the sun and the earth, obscuring the sun -

Guillermo Del Toro

#2. When you brought light to my darkness, I undiscovered the eclipse!

Avijeet Das

#3. The proper term is "occultation." The moon occults the sun, casting a small shadow onto the surface of the earth. It is not a solar eclipse, but in fact an eclipse of the earth.

Guillermo Del Toro

#4. To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

Benjamin F. Wade

#5. Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun.

Douglas Coupland

#6. I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

William Friedkin

#7. You just have to hold it in your mind, and it's yours to take from. The sun's treasure. It's there in those moments when the world makes a rainbow. It's there in the moment of eclipse and the moment of the storm." And he showed Shadow how to do the thing. This time Shadow got it.

Neil Gaiman

#8. My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Charlotte Bronte

#9. Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need. He is very dreamy," she says. "But he is not the sun. You are.

Shonda Rhimes

#10. A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

William Wycherley

#11. 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

#12. I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

Oprah Winfrey

#13. Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#14. Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

Tom Hodgkinson

#16. The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Ellis Peters

#17. You can eclipse the sun, but the truth will always shine through.

Jaree Francis

#18. The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Charles L. Allen

#19. We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

Simon Newcomb

#21. Their irreligious pride makes them withdraw from you and eclipse your great light from reaching themselves. They can foresee a future eclipse of the sun, but do not perceive their own eclipse in the present.

Augustine Of Hippo

#22. It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

Jeff Goldblum

#23. You can't dance with me in the day and sleep in his arms at night. You can't have the sun and moon at the same time. Unless there's an eclipse.

Neha Yazmin

#24. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun.

Charlotte Bronte

#25. Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

Anthony Hopkins

#26. Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

Kailash Satyarthi

#27. I'll never forget what burning roses look like. All those scarlet petals turning incandescent and furious. Like the last fl are of the sun before an eclipse swallows it from the sky.

Roshani Chokshi

#28. What's important is being attentive. Staying calm, being alert to things around you.

Haruki Murakami

#29. When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Kim Young-ha

#30. If you looked inside me, I bet you'd find two different hearts beating for two different people, like the sun and the moon up at the same time, a terrible eclipse I'm the only witness to.

Adam Silvera

#31. As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them.

Brahmagupta

#32. Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they're jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

Simon Newcomb

#34. The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

Zooey Deschanel