Anna Akhmatova Quotes

You... you are as old as the Mamre oak, ancient interrogator of the moon, whose feigned groans cannot take us in. You write laws of iron.

Anna Akhmatova

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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

• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Moon
  • Interest
  • Deeper

• I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • True
  • Want
  • Potential

• 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

• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  

  Hal Borland
  • High
  • Night
  • Summer

• I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• 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

• A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Experience
  • Childhood

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

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Moon
  • Look
  • Walk

• A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Man
  • Smart

• I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 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 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

• 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
  • Living
  • Year

• On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • Man
  • Moon

• 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

• The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

  

  Pierre Loti
  • World
  • May
  • Moon

• I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Religious

• I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I feel like working with smaller units feels more natural to the way I write poems.

  

  Anna Journey
  • Working
  • Poems
  • Sections

• It astounds me that I just keep getting better. I'm going to keep believing in myself and realize that look at Annika, when she was winning two, three tournaments a year, people were like, well, how much better can she get? I think, why can't I do that.

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Believe
  • Winning
  • Tournaments

• I'm not superstitious at all. I'm not a Russian.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• You... you are as old as the Mamre oak, ancient interrogator of the moon, whose feigned groans cannot take us in. You write laws of iron.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Moon