Eleanor Catton Quotes

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

People suit their star sign. If someone is annoying me over and over, and I know they're a Sagittarius, say, I'm more likely to forgive them. It comes down to my need for structure as a way of finding my bearings with people.

I'm very into Zodiac signs, so when I meet a fellow Scorpio, I always get really excited.

If you believe in astrology, I'm a Virgo, so I'm very controlling; I'm very neat, and I'm very organized.

If astrology is real, I guess I'm a pretty quintessential Virgo.

Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested in that pseudo-science astrology or astromancy may trace her life and character, if they wish, among the stars, where no doubt it is all written.

A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet.

We've progressed well beyond the four humors in the two thousand-odd years since Hippocrates, but we still haven't satisfied the urge to discover ways of sorting people into personalities and types and, in so doing, predict how they might act in specific situations.

Things I am allergic to: people who believe in star signs and think nothing of starting a conversation with: 'Hi, my name's Lucy. I'm a Sagittarius;' rodents (apart from miniature hamsters, which are not in fact rodents but small, breathing, brown balls of cotton wool); and people who go to the gym.

Every newspaper feels it must have an astrology column, and even in the Carleton University bookstore this morning, I found books on astrology for sale.

The characteristics of people according to their star sign are similar, and we pay attention to how we can get the best out of them.

My father Kakabhai Haribhai Shroff was an astrologer.

I am Pisces, with Aries on the ascent. I couldn't have done all I've done in my life if it hadn't been for Aries.

My mom's really into astrology and she's always telling me about the moon cycles and stuff like that.

Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.