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"The elf’s eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. ‘Harry... Potter...’ And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great, glassy orbs sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see."
"Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'"
"Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting."
"It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter."
"The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley."
"Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things."
"I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star."
"There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven."
"I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars."
"The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream."
"If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all."
"No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]"
"The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness."
"A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge."
"You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way."
"When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone."
"Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud."
"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
"Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars"
"Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate."
