The flames of the luau bonfire burned brightly. Sparks flew into the sky and disappeared before they reached the stars above. Near the horizon, the moon was large and round and flawless as porcelain.

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the...

Cowboy Rodeo was a very simple man. He liked his life simple. He liked his ranch full of animals, he liked the breeze across the plains, and he liked when the sun rose and set....

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

That’s why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

We ourselves are made of Stardust.

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives...

It’s time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.

Small said, “But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?”…Large (replied) “Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died...

wherever you go,wherever you live, still the stars up there will remain the same, as they were when we were together.

Were she better, or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius...

…look up and see the madnessorganized in the stars.

Anyway,” continued Mr. Miller, “when I was a kid, people used to sit under the stars at night and look up into the sky and talk about things. They got to know each other. People...

I love looking up at the stars because they make me believe that some things in this world are permanent.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

I had a dream that I saw shooting stars with you. Two things that will come close to never happening: Seeing shooting stars, and being with you.

Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow.

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through...

[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet;He may know the law of all things,...

The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long.

There is none other like me. There is none other like her. We are unbelievable, impossible. I fly as high as the Heavens which cast me out. I have run out my comet’s course: she...

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake,...

FIREFLAKES: The stars; as transitory as snowflakes only their transitoriness is protracted.

Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move with great velocities, they act at a...

Let me learn your interests and share them, tell me of your hopes and together we will attain them, and desire for nothing because as long as you’re mine, if you should call forth the...

As I went through the city by dayI saw shadows in sunlight;But in the night I saw everywhereStars within the darkness.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don’t have that.

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

I cannot squeeze the stars; but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed.

The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

The stars are honest and sensible. But humanity is insane!

…freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin – inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night…

I will lose the habit of stars in the heavens, as frozen water loses the habit of snowflakes. I will take my frozen body, and give it to the young goats that they might graze...

Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.

We don’t look at the stars in the universe and say how tragic they are, how bruised they are, even though that is what they are. We look at them and speak of the beauty...

For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.

Someday, Sarah, someone will come along and give you the moon, and the stars too.

See the stars, Lily?”She sighed, surrendering. “Of course.””Do you think they can see the sun coming up?””I don’t know. Probably?””Do you think they’re scared?””They’re burning balls of gas, Calder.””Oh, c’mon. Where’s the poet in you?”She...

The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.

I can think of nothing but the stars. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars. They are all...

My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

The wreckage of stars – I built a world from this wreckage.