galactic wonders Quotes

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them burned out years ago, but their light is just now reaching earth. DogbertThank you for shattering my comfortable misconception. DilbertIt's the miracle of science.

Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.