Robert Smith Quotes

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.'

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

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

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things.

Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.

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

Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening to Duran Duran. Stars? Who remembers stars? Come to think of it, had I even looked up at the sky recently? Had the stars been wiped out of the sky three months ago, I wouldn’t have known.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

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

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

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.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

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

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

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.

I've never loved listening to music.

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

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

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

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

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.