William Styron Quotes

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.

I can see the stars again m'lady.

Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'

Directing is like looking at the stars on a cloudless night. You get away from all light sources, and you look up, and you see 50 points of light. And a minute later 100 and another minute later 1,000 and then 10,000. And then this swirling gigantic carpet above you, and somehow it all seems to connect.

When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky.

There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.

I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.

Cammie: I never knew there were this many stars. Zach: I can't see them. I just see you.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations.

The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

I live out here in Malibu, where I can see the stars. So I want to get a really nice telescope so I can look at the stars a little bit more.