Ovid
Poet
"Venus favors the bold."
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Venus
40 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
"The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle."
John Keats
Poet
"I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen."
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time."
Eva Green
Actress
"In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something."
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"It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey."
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"Venus smiles not in a house of tears."
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"Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can."
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"Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods."
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"By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct."
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"Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm."
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"The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love."
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"I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701."
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"All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead."
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"Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me."
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"A lifetime with Venus Williams will not be enough."
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"But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over its surface. This innocuous-sounding feature implicates a single planetwide catastrophe that reset the cratering clock... turning Venus's entire surface into the American automotive dream-a totally paved planet."
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"An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist."
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