William T. Vollmann Quotes

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

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

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.'

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.

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.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

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.

There's no night without stars.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

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.

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.

I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

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

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

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.

Go out tonight and look at the stars. And allow yourself to dream.

I've been a stargazer for quite a long time, I've got the apps, I know where a lot of things are in the sky and the apps actually can help just to point out what you are looking at because then you do get to see, 'Oh that's Saturn, that's Mars.'

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

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.