Les Brown Quotes

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

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• In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Moon

• '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 lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Sports
  • Events
  • Realized

• In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Woman

• Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Look
  • Moon
  • Walk

• Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Together
  • Help
  • Moon

• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Moon
  • Presidential

• I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Trying
  • Single
  • Wonder

• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Moon
  • Stars
  • Jealousy

• Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Men
  • American

• When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Moon
  • Year
  • Living

• Guys are very simple.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Simple
  • Very
  • Guys

• To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Space

• 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 stag at eve had drunk his fill,Where danced the moon on Monan's rill,And deep his midnight lair had madeIn lone Glenartney's hazel shade.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Deep
  • Moon
  • Drunk

• 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

• I was out walking the other evening. This fellow accosted me, and asked if that was the moon up there in the sky. I replied that I had no idea, as I was a stranger there myself.

  

  Chic Murray
  • Funny
  • Ideas
  • Walking

• I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Life
  • True
  • Person

• People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • People
  • Breaks

• Well, like I said, there's no reason everyone can't have a piece of the pie, even if there's a gordo there eating most of it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias

• Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

  

  Les Brown
  • Moon