Carolyn Meyer Quotes

He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

Carolyn Meyer

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• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Mars

• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Stars

• Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Girl

• And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Stars
  • Touch
  • Straw

• I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Science

• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Wisdom
  • Stars
  • Ship

• I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Life
  • Men
  • Husband

• Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

  

  Beck
  • Men
  • Stars
  • Prison

• The moon belongs to everyone. The best things in life they're free. Stars belong to everyone. They cling there for you and for me.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Things
  • Moon
  • Stars

• Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Dark

• The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • Good
  • Sun

• It was early one morning on a calm sea, off Guatemala, when over my couch - a coil of rope - I saw the beginning of a fiery red sunrise on one side and the moon looking like a silver coin on the other.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Morning
  • Beginning
  • Red

• Is this the visitor from the wrong side of the mirror? Or the shape that suddenly flitted past my window? Is it the new moon playing tricks, or is someone really standing there again between the stove and the cupboard?

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Past
  • Moon
  • Mirror

• Blue Moon,Now I'm no longer alone,Without a dream in my heart,Without a love of my own.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Alone

• When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.

  

  Ben Chaplin
  • People
  • Moon

• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Certainly
  • Lively

• I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Create
  • Works
  • Limitations

• It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Soul
  • Effects
  • Diseases

• The thing most worth doing in this modern world is to create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

  

  Nevil Shute
  • World
  • Proud
  • Jobs

• He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

  

  Carolyn Meyer
  • Moon
  • Stars