"I didnâ€™t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men."

-- Anne Rice

#Stars Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Memorable Quotes

“My favorite umpire is a dead one.”
“This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.”

Source : Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.270
“As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.”
“I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.”
“It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.”
“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.”
“Thereâ€™s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.”

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