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Starred Quotes (page 52)

Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that..."
Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Virginia Woolf quote: "I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're..."
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. Virginia Woolf
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed. Arthur C. Clarke
Bunny slippers remind me of who I am. You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous. Dean Koontz
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world. Albert Camus
Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars? Henry Beston
Poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last -- what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn -- whatever they had been, they were men! H. P. Lovecraft
Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,'And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny. To find out if I might love.'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.'Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough. To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love. Till the stars had run away. And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One... William Butler Yeats
Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory. James Joyce
C. S. Lewis quote: "Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star."
Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star. C. S. Lewis
...she gave thanks to the images of the stars for the joy she had had of the night, when the constellations shone in their myriad majesty, and moved like an army dresses in silver mail, marching from unknown victories to conquer in distant wars. She praised those bright reflections shimmering down in the pool. Lord Dunsany
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths..."
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Blake quote: "The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their..."
The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks. William Blake
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter. J. R. R. Tolkien
Albert Camus quote: "Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky..."
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. Albert Camus

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