Moon Quotes - Word Counter (2024)

‘Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.’ – Buddha

‘We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.’ – Les Brown

‘You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.’ – Gary Allan

‘If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.’ – William Blake

‘I am big into astrology. My best friend in the whole wide world, Justin, got me hooked on astrology, when I was in high school. I am a Capricorn, but Im a Gemini rising and a Pisces moon.’ – Renee Rapp

‘Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.’ – Coolio

‘There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.’ – George Carlin

‘The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.’ – Carl Sandburg

‘Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.’ – John Lennon

‘When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.’ – Jean Ingelow

‘You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!’ – Keith Richards

‘The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.’ – Anton Chekhov

‘I feel like the moon is a very beautiful woman. She’s in control.’ – Ravyn Lenae

‘Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!’ – Susan B. Anthony

‘You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.’ – Edgar Mitchell

‘I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought… I must put a roof on this toilet.’ – Les Dawson

‘They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.’ – Bobby Sands

‘What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.’ – Thomas Merton

‘You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.’ – Tom Hanks

‘I still say, ‘Shoot for the moon; you might get there.” – Buzz Aldrin

‘We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.’ – William Anders

‘If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘I am not a person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.’ – Gertrude Ederle

‘With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing ‘philosophy of the universe’ through art under such circ*mstances has led me to what I call ‘stereotypical repetition.” – Yayoi Kusama

‘When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?’ – Kim Young-ha

‘From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.’ – Jim Lovell

‘If you strive for the moon, maybe you’ll get over the fence.’ – James Woods

‘The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.’ – Sojourner Truth

‘Shoot for the moon – if you miss you’ll end up in the stars.’ – Artie Shaw

‘There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.’ – Matsuo Basho

‘The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.’ – Confucius

‘The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.’ – Plautus

‘Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.’ – Nostradamus

‘You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.’ – Arunachalam Muruganantham

‘Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I’m on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding – yet beautiful – Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Believe it or not, I’d love to go to the moon.’ – Tiny Tim

‘Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?’ – John F. Kennedy

‘I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.’ – Kathryn Lasky

‘The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘We’ve got a thing called the ‘tall poppy syndrome’ in New Zealand, where if anyone is doing really well, it’s quite common to try and bring them down – like, cut them down and say, ‘You’ve been to the moon? So what? I mean, plenty of people have been to the moon.” – Taika Waititi

‘The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.’ – David Mallet

‘Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.’ – M. F. K. Fisher

‘It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.’ – Isaac Newton

‘There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.’ – Thomas More

‘The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.’ – Nicolaus Copernicus

‘By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I’m swept up in amorphous dust.’ – Bradley Chicho

‘I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin’. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.’ – Kevin Gates

‘The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.’ – Alfred Noyes

‘Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.’ – Anaxagoras

‘Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?’ – Steven Pinker

‘Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.’ – Bette Davis

‘People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn’t be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don’t have families. They don’t clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.’ – Laura Amy Schlitz

‘The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.’ – Jean Piaget

‘They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.’ – Edward Lear

‘Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don’t ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Humans are ridiculous. We’re all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it’s optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you’re never going to get there, and that’s OK.’ – Bob Odenkirk

‘Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.’ – Jean Paul

‘For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn’t get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.’ – Jim Lovell

‘Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.’ – Jane Yolen

‘We’ve gotta reinvest in space travel. We should’ve never left the moon.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn’t know how difficult.’ – Alan Bean

‘My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer – it’s really strong. We’re deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I’m very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.’ – Kali Uchis

”A Court of Thorns and Roses’ was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’ and ‘Tam Lin.’ I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: ‘What if ‘Beauty’ was a huntress?” – Sarah J. Maas

‘If I tell you there’s cheese on the moon, bring the crackers.’ – Tyronn Lue

‘I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.’ – Anne Lamott

‘A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can’t read. That’s terribly troubling to me.’ – Charles Kuralt

‘My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.’ – Charles Duke

‘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

‘I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘We imagine going to the moon and planting a flag, going to an asteroid and mining, going to Mars and setting up a colony. And I think that expansionist mentality is very self-destructive, especially given the kind of precarious relationship we now have to the ecosystem here on Earth, because it allows us to imagine that Earth is disposable.’ – Trevor Paglen

‘The moon is the accomplice of all things related to the heart.’ – Walter Mercado

‘A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.’ – Reinhard Bonnke

‘You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I’m wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I’m obsessed with being different.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I’m a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I’m actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I’m in my own head a lot. It’s hard and really discouraging.’ – SZA

‘Being the composer of ‘Minecraft’ is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.’ – C418

‘I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn’t defeat the British, it didn’t get us to the moon, build our nation’s highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.’ – Cory Booker

‘If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.’ – Sara Blakely

‘If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We’d both be unique.’ – Mark Spitz

”Easter’ is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.’ – Annie Besant

‘Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.’ – Rita Mae Brown

‘The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.’ – Arthur Smith

‘But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.’ – Arthur Rimbaud

‘I’m obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I’d love to go to space.’ – Sam Heughan

‘If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?’ – Karen Blixen

‘In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.’ – David Gerrold

‘The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I’m a scientist. But I can tell you, I’m not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I’d like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don’t see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.’ – Shirley MacLaine

”Little Night’ has layers of meaning. There’s something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.’ – Luanne Rice

‘The ‘clean energy’ challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.’ – Martin Rees

‘I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘I mean astronomically, that one doesn’t even make sense. Because if you shoot for the moon, you’re not going to land on the stars. The moon is closer than all of the stars.’ – Logan Paul

‘My mom’s really into astrology and she’s always telling me about the moon cycles and stuff like that.’ – Borns

‘Don’t even try to talk to me when I’m watching the moon. That’s my moon, baby.’ – Wendelin Van Draanen

‘Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there’s very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can’t.’ – Andy Weir

‘In ‘Twilight,’ you’re setting up the world. You’re introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn’t know who the actors were going to be. Now you’re going to ‘New Moon’ and ‘Eclipse,’ and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world.’ – Melissa Rosenberg

‘And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin’ brown and golden under a sinkin’ sun.’ – Roy Bean

‘In 1949, when I was 2, my family moved from Yonkers, NY, to a development of brick houses in Elmont, a Long Island suburb of New York City. What I remember most about the house was the glider on our porch. I used to sit there evenings close to my father, Victor, as he talked about the moon and the stars. He taught me to dream big.’ – Susan Lucci

‘You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times… and safely home again.’ – Gordon Sinclair

‘It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!’ – Wilson Greatbatch

‘When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon – and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today, our government is broken.’ – Peter Thiel

‘As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.’ – Gene Cernan

‘The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.’ – Edgar Mitchell

‘Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform ‘Harvest Moon’ on ‘SNL’ was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.’ – Jim James

‘Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.’ – Amy Lowell

‘For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.’ – Richard Baker

‘In 2001, Katie Couric told ‘Today Show’ audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened – that it was staged in the Nevada desert.’ – Annie Jacobsen

‘For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things – like going to the moon – to survive.’ – Homer Hickam

‘I’m cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.’ – Foxy Brown

‘The Hudson River lay flat and black like a lost evening glove. The clouds parted overhead as the distant moon threw a single, bright beam over lower Manhattan as though it were looking for its other half.’ – Adriana Trigiani

‘The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.’ – Jim Lovell

‘It’s like the first man to go to the moon, I will be the first man to run under two hours, this is crucial.’ – Eliud Kipchoge

‘If you’re going to go to the moon, you don’t shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.’ – Drew Houston

‘To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth – all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.’ – Lee De Forest

‘Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I’ll get really and truly inspired about something.’ – Christopher Paolini

‘Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.’ – Sheila Jackson Lee

‘Titan is Saturn’s largest moon, and, until Cassini had arrived, there was the largest single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had remaining in our solar system.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘Once in a blue moon, everything will be right with the man in the sky, and when I start singing ‘I Love a Rainy Night,’ from out of nowhere, there will be lightning and thunder. I just say, ‘Folks, we’ve got the best special effects guy in the world, so let’s get wet together.” – Eddie Rabbitt

‘Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.’ – Yayoi Kusama

‘My mother’s face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘Just as future eclipses of the Sun and Moon are indicated in the present relations of those bodies, so are future earthly lives indicated in what now lives within us.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘I cycled on a crew assignment as the backup commander on Apollo 16 and would have flown Apollo 19 on a return mission to the moon. However, the last few missions of the Apollo Program were canceled for budgetary reasons. So I lost my second opportunity to land on the moon.’ – Fred Haise

‘Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?’ – Isabel Yosito

‘You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.’ – Keith Richards

‘Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.’ – Anton Chekhov

‘The moon is brighter since the barn burned.’ – Matsuo Basho

‘I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it’s something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.’ – Mark Kelly

‘Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she’s very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.’ – Becky Lynch

‘As humans, we’re such a discontented species. We’re always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it’s just discontent. You want to go to Mars.’ – Ted Dwane

‘I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.’ – Jules Verne

‘I like to look at the skyline and the moon.’ – Cree Summer

‘It’s a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.’ – Dwight Schultz

‘I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.’ – Linda M. Godwin

‘In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.’ – John Burroughs

‘I was as huge Spider-Man fan as a kid, but I really liked The Defenders a lot. I was also a big Moon Knight fan for some reason.’ – James Gunn

‘What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.’ – Norman Cousins

‘Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie ‘Brother Sun, Sister Moon’… I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.’ – Rich Mullins

‘When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!’ – David Starr Jordan

‘A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn’t have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.’ – Sun Myung Moon

‘The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history – of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet – this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.’ – Tom Hanks

‘The moon’s a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘The mining towns I describe in the ‘Helium-3′ novel series are not unlike Coalwood, but there is one major difference: Those towns, rather than being located in the Appalachian coalfields, are on the moon.’ – Homer Hickam

‘America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars – and beyond.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we’ll have to master the resources of our solar system – especially transporting raw masses over interplanetary distances.’ – Gregory Benford

‘When I was working on ‘Vampires Suck,’ I must have watched ‘Twilight’ and ‘New Moon’ literally almost every day.’ – Jenn Proske

‘Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.’ – Sean Bean

‘As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon – it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.’ – Naveen Jain

‘I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I’m happy when I land on the roof.’ – Darren Criss

‘The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, ‘Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other.’ That way… you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‘I’m out of eggs. What have you got?” – Jeff Bezos

‘I haven’t shaken my fists at the moon.’ – Ian Dury

‘From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I’ve learned that nobody’s love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.’ – Gabriel Byrne

‘Government is really successful when it’s willing to make big, bold objectives, like, ‘We’re going to get to the moon.’ But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.’ – Bill Maris

‘Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction… my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.’ – Sherilyn Fenn

‘I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?’ – Luis Guzman

‘We may have a tacit understanding of how our solar system works, but watching the sun disappear behind the moon reminds us of the vastness of space and the enduring mysteries of the universe we inhabit.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon… it sounds romantic, but it’s true – the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine – a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.’ – Antoine Predock

‘It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, ‘This is the moon, this is the moon,’ and I would look up and say, ‘That’s the Earth, that’s the Earth,’ in my head. So, it was science fiction to us even as we were doing it.’ – Alan Bean

‘Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.’ – Martin Heinrich

‘We have spent billions to go to the moon – we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don’t feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.’ – James Turrell

‘The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.’ – Charles Duke

‘Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won’t ever be a jazz drummer because he’s more interested in looking good and being screamed at.’ – Pete Townshend

‘When my record company rejected ‘Full Moon Fever’, I was hurt so bad. I was pretty far along in my career at that point. I’d never had anything rejected; I’d never really even had a comment. So when that happened, it was really just a board to the forehead. But then, finally, I picked myself up.’ – Tom Petty

‘A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.’ – Steve Gleason

‘Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It’s called the moon illusion.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I could play a gig on the moon and not be nervous about it.’ – Luke Combs

‘I’m in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.’ – Said Nursi

‘One of the things I’m proudest of is, on my record ‘That Was the Year that Was’ in 1965, I made a joke about spending $20 billion sending some clown to the moon. I was against the manned space program then, and I’m even more against it now, that whole waste of money.’ – Tom Lehrer

‘When the Voyager 2 spacecraft sped through the Saturnian system more than a quarter of a century ago, it came within 90,000 kilometers of the moon Enceladus. Over the course of a few hours, its cameras returned a handful of images that confounded planetary scientists for years.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘We didn’t slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken.’ – Jim Lovell

‘Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don’t see it – but there is.’ – Olive Schreiner

‘The best pop songs are the ones that show that person’s personality. It’s harder to do those singles because the stars, moon and sun have to align and the audience have to be ready, but it’s worth waiting for it.’ – MO

‘The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.’ – Alan Parsons

‘I had no idea ‘Moon River’ would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it.’ – Henry Mancini

‘If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn’t like or the ground didn’t like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.’ – Gene Cernan

‘That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I’m singing about things I’m connected to is such a blessing. It’s the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, ‘I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,’ and then getting to go to the moon.’ – Andy Grammer

‘As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that… adventure travel.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I don’t believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don’t believe in Big Foot.’ – Jerome Corsi

‘In my opinion, future space exploration will require us to inhabit the moon, initially, and later Mars. This is a humongous task for any one nation to carry out.’ – Rakesh Sharma

‘Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.’ – Edgar Mitchell

‘We didn’t go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we’re Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I always believe shooting for the stars, and at the very least, you can land on the moon.’ – Lana

‘A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you’ll find at your local industrial park. That’s the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon.’ – Seth Shostak

‘When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you’re looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you’re beginning to see the Earth evolve.’ – Gene Cernan

‘I actually don’t remember Apollo 11 exactly because, at the time, I was five years old. The landing happened at night, and the walk on the moon happened at night eastern time, and I asked my parents; my mom said I was probably asleep, and so I just don’t have any recollection. I do have recollection of the later missions to the moon.’ – Julie Payette

‘I had a little radio next to the bed and I’d just listen to the top 10 – I mean, it was crap but I was young – and I would get up in the dark with the moon coming in through the window and I would just dance in my pajamas in the dark to the top 10. I didn’t have a CD player… so it was kind of all I had, you know?’ – Aldous Harding

‘I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.’ – Elsa Peretti

‘For the first three years of his life, my son insisted on hearing ‘Goodnight Moon’ before bedtime. Like most babies, he was not a good sleeper by disposition – but reading seemed to help, and this book specifically became part of his whole wind-down ritual.’ – Celeste Ng

‘Something I’ll always remember – when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that’s kinda wild when you think about it.’ – Jonathan Winters

‘This is the first convention of the space age – where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.’ – David Brinkley

‘In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!’ – Jules Verne

‘It is the forces of the universe that make human beings fall ill. Having learnt to recognize how sun qualities and moon qualities live in plants, animals and minerals, we discover how we can find counterforces and also individual natural forces that point us towards medicines for specific internal illnesses.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.’ – William Cullen Bryant

‘It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Usually, at the end of a film it’s like I’ve finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we’re done. That actually happened on the set of ‘Twilight,’ and then it happened again on ‘New Moon.’ Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.’ – Kristen Stewart

‘Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes inside a six-foot golden lotus festooned with ribbons and precious stones.’ – Amanda Foreman

‘I’ve done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. ‘Airwolf.’ ‘Murder, She Wrote.’ ‘Amazon Women on the Moon.’ But you learn from all these bad shows. What you don’t want to do and what you don’t want to be involved with.’ – Bryan Cranston

‘I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of ‘Apollo 11,’ descended the cramped lunar module Eagle’s ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.’ – Douglas Brinkley

‘I often write about the moon, and more often than not, it is to symbolise a person, or a quality.’ – Gulzar

‘If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full – a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon’s waning.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘The whole period of the ’60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history… to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘When I heard ‘Moon River’, at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to the words and realized this song was about Huck Finn. I just love the words, that it’s kind of you and me against the world, and we’re going to make it together.’ – Drew Holcomb

‘When Kennedy said, ‘Let’s go to the moon,’ we didn’t yet have a vehicle that wouldn’t kill you on launch. He said we’ll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.’ – Wilson Greatbatch

‘The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.’ – Charles Duke

‘My first biography written in ’73 was not ‘Journey To The Moon.’ It was ‘Return To Earth.’ Because for me, that was the more difficult task – disappointment.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it’s true, it’s very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say… it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.’ – Mark Rylance

‘We’ll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.’ – Burt Rutan

‘The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.’ – Jules Verne

‘If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn’t kill you, I’d sign up.’ – Tom Hanks

‘I’ve never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn’t take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.’ – Colin Farrell

‘I had seen my buddies crash and burn. Keith Moon died, and I always thought that was the way he wanted to go. John Belushi was a dear friend. A lot of the guys that I ran with were ending up dead, and I saw myself right on schedule to do that. I had some moments of clarity – once in a while.’ – Joe Walsh

‘I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.’ – Amy Lowell

‘How did we cure polio, smallpox and send a man to the moon? How did we decode the human genome in just 13 years? Collaboration. Focus on a specific goal, and teamwork.’ – Margaret Cuomo

‘No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.’ – Joe Haldeman

‘I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.’ – Dennis Banks

‘I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn’t play no blues, we’d play a lot of love songs – ‘Stardust’, ‘Blue Moon’, ‘Out Cold Again’, ‘Sophisticated Lady’, ‘Stars Fell On Alabama’, a lot of different stuff.’ – David Edwards

‘I’ve never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I’ve felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!’ – Van Morrison

‘For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn’t just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you’re not ‘professional’ any more.’ – Jeff Foxworthy

‘In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘Worldly wealth is the Devil’s bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.’ – Robert Burton

‘It’s the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we’re paying somebody not to.’ – Franklin P. Jones

‘They don’t know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.’ – Emma Bull

‘We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.’ – George W. Bush

‘Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.’ – John Milton

‘I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they’re aiming for the moon, and that’s what counts.’ – Marvin Hamlisch

‘We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.’ – Phil Knight

‘The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit – all of which are sky-high.’ – Brad Sherman

‘I’ve always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.’ – Bill Nye

‘I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.’ – Sun Myung Moon

‘I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don’t do otherwise, why, then I’ll have to do it myself.’ – Pete Conrad

‘I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I’d rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.’ – John Sharp Williams

‘I lost the ball in the moon.’ – Hank Sauer

‘If we don’t do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don’t want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.’ – Bart Gordon

‘This is the beauty of the Qur’an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur’an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God’s creation in general.’ – Cat Stevens

‘The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.’ – Walter Lang

‘There’s not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow’r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.’ – Bryan Procter

‘Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.’ – Joan D. Vinge

‘The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.’ – Robert Asprin

‘It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?’ – Algernon Blackwood

‘Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.’ – Barney Oliver

‘I can remember walking on the moon.’ – Alan Bean

‘The moon is very rugged.’ – Alan Bean

‘It’s hard not to be excited when you’re going to find a way to land on the moon.’ – Alan Bean

‘But I’m the only one who can paint the moon, because I’m the only one who knows whether that’s right or not.’ – Alan Bean

‘The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.’ – Tim LaHaye

‘Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It’s supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it’s in the Pacific Ocean instead.’ – David R. Brower

‘Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.’ – John L. Phillips

‘I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.’ – Ezra Cornell

‘The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.’ – Black Elk

‘If we can send a man to the moon, then why don’t we send a woman?’ – Kylie Bax

‘I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.’ – Ace Frehley

‘Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It’s all just a use of your thinking.’ – Michael Nesmith

‘We did ‘Erin Brockovich’, we did ‘Man on the Moon’, we did ‘Living Out Loud’, but now I’m going to keep going.’ – Danny DeVito

‘I can’t think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.’ – Laurel Clark

‘I’d visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.’ – Larry Niven

‘In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.’ – Neil Innes

‘My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.’ – Duncan Sheik

‘Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.’ – Goodman Ace

‘Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women’s lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women’s menstrual cycles.’ – Carol P. Christ

‘But I don’t think we’ll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.’ – Jack Schmitt

‘This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.’ – Wilson Greatbatch

‘We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.’ – Wilson Greatbatch

‘Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn’t want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon.’ – Andy Partridge

‘In the ’20s they were telling us we’d all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.’ – Jay Chiat

‘What will it profit this country if we… put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can’t walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?’ – Jerome Cavanagh

‘When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.’ – John Fogerty

‘Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.’ – Mark Roberts

‘We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.’ – Roger Daltrey

‘I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn’t be able to recall it.’ – Roger Daltrey

‘Tonight I’m going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.’ – Rafer Johnson

‘Another thing that I don’t like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don’t pick up a violin at all.’ – Itzhak Perlman

‘Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.’ – Kenneth Grahame

‘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

‘Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.’ – Wally Schirra

‘I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.’ – Sarah Zettel

‘I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn’t speak the language. I was very isolated.’ – Jean Alesi

‘Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.’ – Mary Hunter Austin

‘As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan’s wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.’ – Tatum O’Neal

‘I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.’ – Umberto Guidoni

‘Paper Moon didn’t bring me love.’ – Tatum O’Neal

‘Ryan finally came to my rescue. He’d thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.’ – Tatum O’Neal

‘It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.’ – Georges Simenon

‘In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn’t feel were the moon or the stars.’ – Hunter Tylo

‘Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.’ – Michelangelo Antonioni

‘I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.’ – Jason Schwartzman

‘I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.’ – Christa McAuliffe

‘I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.’ – Christa McAuliffe

‘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

‘The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.’ – Anatoly Chubais

‘I’ve written a lot of books which are written from the moon – the view from nowhere.’ – Clifford Geertz

‘In New York, there are so many potholes, they’re like craters on the moon. That’s another traffic thing.’ – Jimmy Fallon

‘I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.’ – Don DeLillo

‘If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.’ – Laurie Anderson

‘I’m not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn’t impress me when we can go to the moon.’ – Alexandra Paul

‘You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?’ – Toni Morrison

‘I’d like to go to the Moon.’ – Jeanne Calment

‘Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘We got to the moon.’ – Rusty Schweickart

‘We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.’ – John Phillips

‘A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ‘ancient institution’ the old one.’ – Douglas William Jerrold

‘If we hadn’t put a man on the moon, there wouldn’t be a Silicon Valley today.’ – John Sculley

‘I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that’s how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called ‘A Banquet for the Moon.’ It was a weird play.’ – Mako

‘This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.’ – Tavis Smiley

‘Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn’t enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.’ – Robert Ballard

‘The day I finished ‘Twilight,’ I came home and started bulking up. For ‘New Moon,’ I’m 30 pounds heavier than I was in ‘Twilight.” – Taylor Lautner

‘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

‘To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I’m over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.’ – Paula Radcliffe

‘I’m so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.’ – Libby Trickett

‘I look like the man in the moon.’ – Martin Freeman

‘For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa’s cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.’ – Michelle Malkin

‘When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn’t married!’ – Jennifer Ellison

‘If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.’ – Bill Nye

‘Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.’ – Craig Ferguson

‘Well, I don’t think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.’ – Ron Paul

‘I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.’ – Rick Reilly

‘There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.’ – Jane Campion

‘I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I’ve popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life – it took two years to get!’ – Jay Kay

‘I think once every person on the planet sees ‘New Moon’ and there’s nobody left who hasn’t see it, then I think they’ll be able to go see ‘Ninja.” – Joel Silver

‘I’ve got some news… I’m delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon.’ – Adele

‘The soles of Neil Armstrong’s boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent’s sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.’ – Mitt Romney

‘No one’s played on the moon yet. No one’s played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we’d very much like to do that in the near future.’ – Brandon Boyd

‘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

‘One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you’ve seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you’re talking about; and then take pictures of them.’ – Gene Cernan

‘The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.’ – Gene Cernan

‘Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I’m still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.’ – Gene Cernan

‘We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we’re in the shadow… of the Moon.’ – Gene Cernan

‘Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.’ – Marion Cotillard

‘Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘We see the moon, don’t we? So it’s our eye. Animals see us, don’t they? So we’re their animals.’ – Captain Beefheart

‘The woman’s perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.’ – Ang Lee

‘I don’t need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.’ – Paula Poundstone

‘And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of ‘The Book of Mormon,’ the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central’s ‘South Park,’ are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.’ – James Wolcott

‘Yeah, Jacob transforms a lot in ‘New Moon.’ Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. So it was a matter of getting to the gym and eating the right foods and a lot of it. But also, reading and studying the book and my character over and over and over again so I could have his character down as well.’ – Taylor Lautner

‘Filming ‘Eclipse’ – Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it’s the height of the love triangle. ‘Twilight’ develops Edward and Bella’s relationship, ‘New Moon’ develops Jacob and Bella’s and in ‘Eclipse,’ the three of them are physically together.’ – Taylor Lautner

‘I did four independent films during the break between ‘Twilight’ and ‘New Moon.’ I haven’t even really had time to sit back and process it all. But when you do finally sit back and think about it, it’s incredible.’ – Ashley Greene

‘I think going into ‘New Moon,’ I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. ‘Twilight’ I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn’t cast it yet.’ – Melissa Rosenberg

‘There was a different ending to ‘New Moon’ originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella’s head.’ – Stephenie Meyer

‘If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.’ – Peter Singer

‘I’m over the moon to be involved in the ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special. I can’t quite believe it as it’s a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.’ – Katherine Jenkins

‘Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We’re creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.’ – Ben Carson

‘It more or less has the shape of a love song, but ‘Crescent Moon’ reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.’ – Frank Black

‘If it doesn’t feel like a job and I’m learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don’t care if it’s behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.’ – Benjamin Walker

‘I don’t think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!’ – Lucy Hale

‘Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It’s like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.’ – Meghan O’Rourke

‘I’m the diva from the future. The next gig’s on the moon. Catch me while you can.’ – Natasha Bedingfield

‘Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public’s imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.’ – Paul Davies

‘Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn’t run that much. That’s the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit.’ – Robert Griffin III

‘In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could – and we did.’ – Richard Dreyfuss

‘I would still like to go to the moon before I die.’ – Richard E. Grant

‘On the film sets of ‘New Moon’ and ‘Eclipse,’ I feel safe. It’s like you’re in the center of the hurricane, but outside is where it starts to get chaotic.’ – Chaske Spencer

‘When we’re on set, we kind of joke around, and when we’re rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on ‘New Moon.” – Kellan Lutz

‘Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things – the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.’ – Geraldine Brooks

‘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

‘Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘It hadn’t really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was – late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.’ – David Weber

‘I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn’t give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.’ – David Weber

‘I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in ‘New Moon,’ like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.’ – Chris Weitz

‘I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.’ – Naveen Jain

‘When you’re a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.’ – Keegan-Michael Key

‘To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can’t imagine what that’s like.’ – Nicole Krauss

‘It’s very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there’s radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It’d be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It’s like going to the moon.’ – Jon Krakauer

‘I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what’s available.’ – Bryce Courtenay

‘Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don’t care about full moons. They’ll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It’s a slightly bigger moon; I ain’t using the adjective ‘supermoon.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I love beautiful black-and-white movies – anything Bette Davis, especially ‘Now’, ‘Voyager’, ‘Casablanca’, ‘Mildred Pierce’; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and ‘Paper Moon’ by Peter Bogdanovich.’ – Suzan-Lori Parks

‘Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.’ – Lucy Larcom

”Sailor Moon’ was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I’m still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.’ – Emily Browning

‘Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep – not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.’ – Nick Turse

”And for my part, Gentlemen,’ said I, ‘that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.” – Cyrano de Bergerac

‘When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.’ – Olivier Theyskens

‘Everything that is bad, the falling sickness – God save the mark – or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.’ – Lady Gregory

‘The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.’ – Lady Gregory

‘The big reason why we don’t have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain ‘hard.’ The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.’ – Ben Parr

‘Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.’ – Ben Parr

‘Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented – putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.’ – Nathan Myhrvold

‘I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports.’ – Rodrigo Santoro

‘An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.’ – Steven Pinker

‘I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the ’70s, space was very relevant at that time. It was on television – all the experiments, the moon landings, everything like that.’ – Sarah Brightman

‘I’m not flying to the moon. But when I’ve talked to people who have been up, you can tell it’s really special because without fail a very special light comes into their eyes and they appear to be very fulfilled in some way and very calm.’ – Sarah Brightman

‘I don’t want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it’s not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.’ – Sean M. Carroll

‘One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon – how rad would that be? Isn’t Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.’ – Tommy Lee

‘I’m very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.’ – Steven Adler

‘I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.’ – Afrika Bambaataa

‘Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It’s estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there’s life on Mars – why can’t we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?’ – Jacqueline Novogratz

‘I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon!’ – Juliana Rotich

‘We achieved our mission to the moon. Let’s look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth – that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions.’ – William McDonough

‘Go to the moon – that’s my dream.’ – Steve Jurvetson

‘I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don’t know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘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

‘My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.’ – Brian K. Vaughan

‘The reason I wanted to do ‘The First Men in the Moon’ was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.’ – Mark Gatiss

‘I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play ‘Blue Moon’ in a hotel lobby.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘If we go back to the moon, we’re guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don’t have. It sounds great – ‘Let’s go back. This time we’re going to stay.’ I don’t know why you would want to stay on the moon.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who’s number one and who’s number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that’s a joke.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘There’s a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That’s a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars… and then on the surface.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we’d thought it would be. There weren’t any balance problems, so you weren’t tumbling over.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Let’s not spend resources that we don’t need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let’s not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they’ll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he’d be a national hero.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we’d probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I’m a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!’ – Brian Blessed

‘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

‘As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.’ – Ishmael Beah

‘I don’t think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That’s going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn’t have a lot to offer as a resource base.’ – Edgar Mitchell

‘I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren’t that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.’ – Jim Lovell

‘The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you’ve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.’ – Jim Lovell

‘I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don’t want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?’ – Pauly Shore

‘The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it’s now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.’ – Caitlin Moran

‘I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Rain Man;’ it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘Space fascinated me because I’m from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, ‘Lost in Space’ was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.’ – Alfonso Cuaron

‘I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized it was very unlikely that a Mexican kid in the early ’70s was going to be an astronaut.’ – Alfonso Cuaron

‘Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.’ – Rusty Schweickart

‘I didn’t go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.’ – Jim Lovell

‘Buzz Aldrin doesn’t think we need to go back to the Moon – that we should go straight on to Mars. I’m more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there’s a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.’ – Charles Duke

‘It certainly is possible to construct a moon base in such a way that crews could stay for extended periods of time.’ – Charles Duke

‘I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you’re close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.’ – Charles Duke

‘Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States.’ – Charles Duke

‘You wouldn’t want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.’ – Charles Duke

‘I’m quite disappointed that I’m still the last man on the moon.’ – Gene Cernan

‘Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.’ – Gene Cernan

‘Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.’ – Gene Cernan

‘Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days – that’s acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days – then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.’ – Gene Cernan

‘I want to be the first. If they’d let me go to the moon, I’d crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I’d like to go to the moon, but I don’t want to be the second man to go there.’ – Evel Knievel

‘I’m probably the only one in the world you can name that’s worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I’m the only one.’ – Quincy Jones

‘My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a ‘Mass Effect’ guy hanging out with a ‘Sailor Moon,’ and they’re just having a great time.’ – Joss Whedon

‘Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.’ – John Shelby Spong

‘I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.’ – Eddie Trunk

‘I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.’ – Gloria Vanderbilt

‘In 2025, don’t be surprised if a Chinese flag is placed on the moon.’ – Michio Kaku

‘The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that’s what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like ‘Lost In Space,’ and that led me to ‘Star Trek,’ which was a major influence on my life.’ – Ronald D. Moore

‘The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the ‘bliss point.’ Food inventors and scientists spend a huge amount of time formulating the perfect amount of sugar that will send us over the moon and send products flying off the shelves.’ – Michael Moss

‘Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the ‘adjacent possible.’ We didn’t stay in the caves. We didn’t stay on the planet, and soon we won’t stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.’ – Jason Silva

‘When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding – that, for me, was the American Dream.’ – Renzo Rosso

‘In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon landing was right up there with the Mets in the World Series. So it made a, a big impression on me as a little kid.’ – Michael J. Massimino

‘The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets – together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor – seem dynamic.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Note to academics: Aristarchus’ track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid – one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence – hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite.’ – Seth Shostak

‘There’s no doubt that the Moon is more than a handy night light and a hair restorer for werewolves. It’s responsible for the substantial amplitude of earthly ocean tides. These are of obvious influence if you’re a geoduck, a type of clam that people dig up at low tide.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Even if the Moon didn’t exist – even if it had been vaporized billions of years ago by cantankerous Klingons – there would still be (somewhat lower) tides raised by the Sun. For creatures dependent on the oceans’ ebb and flow, life could go on.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The Moon stabilizes Earth’s obliquity. Well, almost. The tilt actually varies between 22 and 24.5 degrees – and the variation is enough to induce such environmental inconveniences as the occasional ice age. Without the Moon, it might be much worse.’ – Seth Shostak

‘NASA’s Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize – to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Five centuries from now – barring unimaginable catastrophe – the moon will be developed real estate. There’s economic incentive to exploit the moon – the helium-3 will be useful in powering fusion reactors, and the rare earth elements could supplant the limited terrestrial supply of these materials.’ – Seth Shostak

‘We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionately that this is an interesting human adventure. This is one of the things we’re doing that is really fundamentally important, as we leave our home planet, but also exciting.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted, working with each other – and millions and millions of people around the world, glued to their television sets to share real-time in a brand new, fascinating human experience.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘When ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, ‘You really have to do a play about this album.” – Tom Stoppard

‘You have to succeed as a young actor, then as a dad actor, those would be my ‘Harvey Moon’ years, then as an old actor.’ – Kenneth Cranham

‘I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.’ – Doug Liman

‘I watched the first people walk on the moon, and to me, it was just an obvious thing – I want to somehow turn myself into that. But the real question is, how do you deal with the danger of it and the fear that comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger?’ – Chris Hadfield

‘I hate that thing that if you are over 45, and you’re going to be on telly or make films, you have to do all this stupid stuff to your face. I would no more let someone stick a needle in my forehead than fly to the moon.’ – Lesley Manville

‘Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags.’ – Martin Rees

‘The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to undertake a risky Apollo-style programme. If Americans or Europeans venture to the moon and beyond, this will have to be in a very different style and with different motives.’ – Martin Rees

‘The first Nintendo game I ever got was ‘Clash at Demonhead.’ I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, ‘Sailor Moon.” – Bryan Lee O’Malley

‘If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.’ – Basmah bint Saud

‘I actually started making tank tops under the name Kitty Moon many, many years ago, but I just didn’t have the time to fully devote to it. Now that we don’t go on the road as much, I have a better ability to focus on a line; that’s why I started Total Skull.’ – Sheri Moon Zombie

‘John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.’ – Thomas Friedman

‘Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it… They’ve been doing this for over a hundred years, they’ve been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.’ – Michael Mosley

‘The Weezer ‘Blue’ Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket’s ‘Circuital’ is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ or ‘Animals.’ I always catch myself at concerts being like, ‘Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.’ I study them.’ – Christopher Mintz-Plasse

‘People ask me, ‘Did you always want to be on SNL?’ No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn’t even seem possible. It would’ve been like saying, ‘Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?” – Bill Hader

‘A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.’ – Nancy Gibbs

‘When people want to see your film, you’re over the moon because you’ve actually made real contact. That’s something very special.’ – Charlotte Rampling

‘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

‘Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.’ – Jules Verne

‘Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.’ – Jules Verne

‘Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I was, the moon would shine on both of us. Months later, walking in London, I’d look at the moon and feel his love. Now I’ve shared the ritual with my own kids.’ – Roma Downey

‘When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I’ll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.’ – Andrew J. Feustel

”Dark Side of the Moon’ was one of my father’s favorite records, which I obviously didn’t understand when I was young. To be honest, I don’t really have too many memories of hearing it, but I definitely have memories of the cover.’ – Apparat

‘I don’t know how to be sexy on a date. Put up a camera and a wind machine, and I’ll give you sexy. Put me at a dinner table with some candlelight and the moon shining in and, oh, I will give you dork.’ – Tyra Banks

‘I will forever be a Bond. It’s a small group of men who’ve made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.” – Pierce Brosnan

‘When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn’t whether we’d get there, it was only when we’d get there.’ – Mitt Romney

‘Some things just can’t be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy’s speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn’t as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who’s been to the Moon.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I wrote ‘Reaching for the Moon’ because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don’t attain it, you can at least reach for it.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that’s empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That’s a stunt! That’s not historic.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven’t heard him say, ‘Let’s junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.’ He’s not about to say that. That would not be very popular.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we’ve made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn’t compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That’s behind me now.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn’t we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I have a restaurant in Milan, and Paper Moon is five minutes away from my hotel, so I always go there for lunch. It’s a casual place that serves good salad, pizza and pasta; the space is tight with tables close together, and it feels buzzy. Food comes out fast, too.’ – Nobu Matsuhisa

‘My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.’ – Lykke Li

‘When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.’ – Ian McLagan

‘There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth’s tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.’ – Max Heindel

‘Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, ‘Le Voyage’ features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.’ – Kage Baker

‘I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I’m optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.’ – Gary Johnson

‘With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we’d go to the moon before the end of the decade.’ – John Catsimatidis

‘During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal – which in fact it was, because it was nature.’ – Luanne Rice

‘If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon – the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited – all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another.’ – James Gray

‘It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There’s no reason they couldn’t likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and manmade.’ – Henry Petroski

‘Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘I played in ‘From the Earth to the Moon,’ working with Tom Hanks. He is a great guy, very smart.’ – Tom Verica

‘My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.’ – Andy Weir

‘People are so used to eating terrible pancakes, no matter how you mess up, they’re going to be great. And if you make fresh orange juice, they’ll be over the moon.’ – Ruth Reichl

”The Moon Rabbit’ is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.’ – Florentijn Hofman

‘In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.’ – Mario Cuomo

‘Every one of today’s smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.’ – Peter Thiel

‘One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.’ – Charles Stross

‘I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.’ – Pamela Sargent

‘I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.’ – John Kasich

‘At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.’ – Daniel Hope

‘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

‘Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.’ – Astro Teller

‘The Jewish calendar, which is lunar, is a calendar of witness. The Sanhedrin, Jewry’s Congress, met in Jerusalem toward the end of every month to wait for the new moon.’ – Joshua Cohen

‘Supplying fuel for a Mars expedition from the lunar surface is often suggested, but it’s hard to make it pay off – Moon bases are expensive, and just buying more rockets to launch fuel from Earth is relatively cheap.’ – Henry Spencer

‘The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it’s still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.’ – Henry Spencer

‘I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music – and ‘Pink Moon’ is my favourite LP.’ – Gabrielle Aplin

‘I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.’ – David Mackay

‘I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.’ – David Mackay

‘When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, ‘That’s what I want to do.” – David Mackay

‘I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.’ – David Mackay

‘I’ve always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.’ – David Mackay

‘I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.’ – David Mackay

‘When I was younger, I’d make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I’m working on horror films. I’m just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.’ – Christopher Young

‘Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.’ – Eugene Kennedy

‘Vatican II and the Space/Information Age began in the same eye blink of history, with John XXIII’s opening speech of Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962, following John F. Kennedy’s call for a round trip to the moon a month earlier.’ – Eugene Kennedy

‘When you realize my best selling books are ‘Owl Moon,’ the ‘How Do Dinosaur’ books, and ‘Devil’s Arithmetic,’ how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!’ – Jane Yolen

‘At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It’s the model that put food on the table. It’s the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.’ – Dambisa Moyo

‘Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We’ve had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable.’ – Bill Maris

‘As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA’s chief scientist, I love space movies, from ‘Star Trek’ to ‘Star Wars’ to my all-time favorite – ‘The Dish’, an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.’ – Ellen Stofan

‘To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.’ – Elizabeth Bibesco

‘Isn’t that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?’ – Elizabeth Bibesco

‘When I posted my first video, I remember it hit 700 views after a week, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is amazing.’ I was over the moon.’ – Lilly Singh

‘To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.’ – Gregory Benford

‘Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.’ – Gregory Benford

‘The moon’s closeness is a huge advantage: To make it habitable, we would first have to bombard it with water-ice comets, a tricky endeavor best attempted with the many resources waiting on and near Earth.’ – Gregory Benford

‘I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.’ – Karl Schroeder

‘I used to joke that I wanted to go to the moon, but I actually do. Like, some day I think I’m going to go to the moon. That would be cool.’ – Tyler Oakley

‘Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.’ – George Vecsey

‘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

‘Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troubling concern of our society is whether men of different races can sit together at a lunch counter.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘I used to be followed by a moon shadow. Now I’m followed by all these misconceptions, and they’re like a ball and chain. I just want to write music from my heart and give people a message of hope and the search for a better place.’ – Cat Stevens

‘Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure. This is when the moon completes her great cycle, but by other rumors, he shall be dishonored.’ – Nostradamus

‘We’re actually thinking about distributing ‘Moon Over Broadway’ on-line. It’s tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it’s sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it’s kind of a buyer’s market.’ – D. A. Pennebaker

‘The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.’ – David Ignatius

‘There will be a great loss of learning before the moon’s full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.’ – Nostradamus

‘If you take all the money we’ve spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me ‘Goodnight Moon.’ From that moment, to this one, every single memory I have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me.’ – Chelsea Clinton

‘In 1969 I was 16, and for me anything was possible. ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ was in theaters. Man’s future in space seemed limitless, and here on TV to punctuate it all were men walking on the moon.’ – Brian Binnie

‘I will venture to say that sending a probe to the center of the earth will be more difficult than putting a man on the moon or sending a spaceship to Mars.’ – Thomas Frey

‘Most conspiracies interest me because of the people who are into them, and the lengths they’ll go to expose it or the evidence they think they have. All that stuff. There’s just something so beautiful to me about people who sincerely believe we never went to the moon. It gives me so much joy.’ – Paul Giamatti

‘Buzz was, of course, the second man to walk on the moon. Buzz made a rap video, ‘Rocket Experience,’ with Snoop Dogg. He did the cha-cha and the fox-trot and was eliminated in the second round of season ten of ‘Dancing with the Stars’.’ – Jeanne Marie Laskas

‘Neither Neil Armstrong nor Michael Collins had a mental breakdown after returning from the moon.’ – Jeanne Marie Laskas

”The melancholy of all things done’ is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.’ – Jeanne Marie Laskas

‘No matter what your age, gender, politics, nationality, social or financial standing, every single person inhabiting the planet Earth has the same reaction to him: ‘Holy crap, Buzz Aldrin, you went to the moon!” – Jeanne Marie Laskas

‘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

‘I’m not a dreamer for, you know, ‘I want to go to the moon someday.’ I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.’ – Nadia Comaneci

‘In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level – high school, college, Ph.D.’ – Robert Zubrin

‘Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don’t let depression stop you employing someone, and never let it cause you to judge them. Depression is not a person. Like any other illness, it is something that happens to a person. It shouldn’t define them.’ – Matt Haig

‘There is film of the Americans landing on the moon. Does that mean the moon shot really happened? In the film, the Yanqui flag is flying straight out. So, is there wind on the moon?’ – Hugo Chavez

‘I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It’s about everything in moderation.’ – Mary Berry

‘It is practically certain that sometime during 1958, either the Russians or we, and most likely both, are going to shoot a rocket to the moon.’ – Willy Ley

‘The dark areas, the ‘mare’ plains of the moon, are so incredibly smooth that the English astronomer Thomas Gold has suggested that they might really be depressions filled to the brim with dust. A rocket hit would show whether they are that or not.’ – Willy Ley

‘Even before ‘Moon,’ I did a short film called ‘Whistle,’ and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.’ – Duncan Jones

‘I think, visually, ‘Moon’ probably owes more to the first half of ‘Alien’ and ‘Outland’ than it does to ‘2001.’ The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.’ – Duncan Jones

‘If you’re going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What’s the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.’ – Jim Lovell

‘We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn’t have done a better job of raising people’s hope.’ – Jim Lovell

‘My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace – be comfortable with it – then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.’ – Jim Lovell

‘In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn’t mean much.’ – Jim Lovell

‘Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It’s too risky without spending more time going to the moon.’ – Jim Lovell

‘I was watching a black and white television in Cairo, MI., at my grandparents’ house, and I watched Neil Armstrong step on the moon. At that point, it set the bit for me to be an astronaut, and it was kind of like a dream, but it really wasn’t reality.’ – Gregory H. Johnson

‘You thought the stage, you thought Broadway: that was the pot at the end of the rainbow. The idea of being in Hollywood was like going to the Moon or Mars.’ – Peter Falk

‘In history class, I wrote a poem, ‘The Royalists and the Roundheads.’ I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories about the sun, moon, and stars in science class. Since not many kids were writing in class, I got away with it.’ – Judith Viorst

‘I fell in love with Norman Mailer’s ‘Of a Fire on the Moon’, a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA – and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.’ – Alain de Botton

‘This new movie, ‘Full Moon in Blue Water,’ I loved the idea of working with Gene Hackman, who is a great actor, but when I read the script, I threw it right into the trash can, because I didn’t like this woman. She was just a doormat.’ – Teri Garr

‘The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, but I believe, in the long run, it can have just as great an impact.’ – Tim Ryan

‘I’d love to play Moon Knight. I don’t know if anybody’s doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.’ – Yuri Lowenthal

‘There is a shop close to where I live, outside which, on certain nights of the month – I’ve no idea if the transit of the moon determines precisely when – fans of designer skateboards queue from early evening in order – well in order, I presume – to be among the first to jump on a skateboard when the shop opens in the morning.’ – Howard Jacobson

‘At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.’ – James Turrell

‘I’m working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.’ – James Turrell

‘All in all, we Muslims have only two holidays, and they’re always getting moved around from season to season, from month to month, because we’re dependent on the moon and not the sun, and unlike the Jews, we haven’t created a leap year, so we have no Adar Bet.’ – Sayed Kashua

‘You’ll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.’ – Laura Esquivel

”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

‘I have no boyfriend. No time. None send me over the moon, so I just kind of do my thing.’ – Christina Grimmie

‘Our emotions are constantly being propelled by some new face in the sky, some new rocket to the moon, some new sound in the ear, but they are the same emotions.’ – Merce Cunningham

‘The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘I am focusing more on overseas gigs, as my international fans do not get a chance to be a part of my live concerts, as they visit India once in a blue moon.’ – Armaan Malik

‘When I was a kid, I just figured we’d be living on the moon by the year 2000.’ – Edgar Wright

‘Since the Moon has no atmosphere, it presents a unique orbital opportunity – we could fly incredibly close to the surface while staying in lunar orbit.’ – Steve Jurvetson

‘Bullets are fast – even a 9-millimeter handgun launches lead at Mach 1. And the bigger the bullet gets, the more grains of gunpowder it carries, the faster it goes. Modern rifles can fling the small pieces of metal at half the velocity needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Moon.’ – Kyle Hill

‘I don’t use Facebook or Twitter, and I email once in a blue moon, as I’m a rather slow typist and prefer to pick up the phone and hear a voice.’ – June Whitfield

‘I was in the Oval Office when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon because I was called in to coordinate the coverage. I got to thinking, ‘We have a feed from the moon. We’ve got a feed from the Earth. I can set up the first interplanetary shot in history.” – Roger Ailes

‘Until space tourism is a destination-based business (e.g. flights to a private space station or to the moon), will flyers pay to fly more than once after having earned their astronaut wings? The answer to this is likely very dependent on the experience itself.’ – Dylan Taylor

‘The re-use of a Dragon capsule is yet another example of how SpaceX uses cargo flights to prove out new technologies that can be later used on crewed flights, and is a key step toward a commercial return to the Moon.’ – Bruce Pittman

‘You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody’s going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.’ – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

‘Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understanding the formation and evolution of terrestrial worlds; so would the exploration of near-Earth asteroids by people.’ – Alan Stern

‘The New Horizons Pluto mission will be the first mission to a binary object and will help us understand everything from the origin of Earth’s moon to the physics of mass transfer between binary stars.’ – Alan Stern

‘That’s how I hope to die: on my deathbed, watching ‘Real Housewives of the Moon.” – Danielle Schneider

‘There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven’t found yet. Especially, there’s these close approaches of asteroids. They pass within geosynchronous orbit sometimes, and they pass within the Earth and the moon.’ – Carrie Nugent

‘I designed a system to project video on the moon for all of humanity to see. I did this sort of as therapy as I was doing my Ph.D. in device physics.’ – Mary Lou Jepsen

‘Redirecting sunlight on the earth to the moon gives you enough light so that all of humanity can see.’ – Mary Lou Jepsen

‘My parents were over the moon when I had some success with Christmas songs because that was the time of the year that meant so much to them. They were able to see their loved ones, and it was great to hear their son’s voice on the radio while they visited.’ – Johnny Mathis

‘I was introduced to 7 Charming Sisters at an Emmy Award Show event. When they approached me to become a brand ambassador, I was over the moon about working with the brand. What impressed me even more as a disability advocate is the fact that the company is dedicated to employing people with disabilities.’ – Jamie Brewer

‘Sir Richard Branson started out as a small business owner and now owns a conglomerate that will give you a ride to the moon. If you pay for your ride with bitcoin, you’ll be using the first truly universal currency!’ – Perianne Boring

‘I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn’t know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon – it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.’ – John Lee Hanco*ck

‘The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky – things like ‘Roll Along Kentucky Moon.” – Harry Dean Stanton

‘Keith Moon was the funniest guy around. The stuff he did was insane. He was like somebody straight out of the movies.’ – Gary Rossington

‘The puzzle of ‘To the Moon’ is both elegant and memorable. Take a few hours and try to solve it. The pieces fit together oh so nicely.’ – Jason Schreier

‘I want to make the conquest of the moon the United States’ goal for the 21st century and, through that goal, to make us a great and good and happy country for generations to come.’ – Homer Hickam

‘When the moon was first visited in 1969, the astronauts brought back a treasure trove of unique minerals. Contained within specimens was an isotope called Helium-3, which turns out to be the perfect fuel for fusion reactors.’ – Homer Hickam

‘Tired of burning fossil fuel and polluting the planet? The moon is covered with helium 3, an isotope from the sun that is the perfect fuel for clean fusion reactors.’ – Homer Hickam

‘I am feeling very well here and want to achieve much more with BVB and win titles. I am here and nowhere else: not at Arsenal, not at Barcelona, and not on the moon.’ – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

‘The Broadway run of ‘Memphis’ has been like going to the moon. It was so great to actually open at the Shubert Theatre and then amazing to be nominated for eight Tonys and attend all the luncheons and events.’ – David Bryan

‘My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep.’ – Maya Soetoro-Ng

‘What made ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ so great is some of the mystique and where it was coming from and just the authenticity of it.’ – M. Shadows

‘I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I’m going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of ‘Dark Side of the Moon.” – Diego Luna

‘If you think that the distance from the Earth to the nearest planet where we could live comfortably… is being, like, from New York to Australia… what we’ve achieved so far, in going to the moon, that’s about two-and-a-half inches. So that’s the challenge.’ – Kip Thorne

‘Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don’t have enough money to buy food to eat on earth?’ – Marion Barry

‘The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than the width of an atom. As such, gravitational radiation has not been directly detected yet. We hope to change that soon.’ – Barry Barish

‘I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and Land Rovers. The guy put on Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ on a cassette, which they played on loudspeakers as we raced across the mountains, and I remember thinking, ‘This sure beats respectable life in England.” – Simon Sebag Montefiore

‘Every time I get dressed, I try to channel a little bit of Kanye West and a little bit of Sailor Moon.’ – Bishop Briggs

‘The thing that I guess I’ve never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend Moon. I never did. I took it to his wife.’ – Danny K. Davis

‘Science has improved public health, taken us to the moon, and allowed us to understand the origins of our universe. It also has given us the tools to solve problems now instead of reacting to them after it is too late.’ – Bill Foster

‘Something about the Clintons sets the GOP to howling at the moon.’ – Richard Cohen

‘I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it’s been done in science fiction many, many times: bases on the moon, Mars colonized, move out to the outer planets, then we go to the next solar system and build a colony there. I don’t know now – I’m not as convinced that’s the way it’s going to pan out.’ – Alastair Reynolds

‘One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans. Black America’s least-understood communities are those poor, hyper-segregated places we once called ghettos. These neighborhoods are not far away, but they might as well be on the moon.’ – James Forman, Jr.

‘We can dream about putting a man on the Moon, and within a decade, we actually made it happen.’ – Shervin Pishevar

‘We shouldn’t persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.’ – Jean-Claude Juncker

‘From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.’ – Jens Martin Skibsted

‘Any actor worth his salt is looking for truth, the core of truth of the particular situation he is portraying, of that play. The playwright, the actors and the audience, that’s what we’re all there seeking. When it’s working, time is destroyed. Sometimes ‘Moon,’ a play of four hours, would go by in a snap of the fingers.’ – Jason Robards

”Twilight’ was a cult film, and the books were huge, but after ‘New Moon,’ it really blew up.’ – David Slade

”New Moon’ was such a serious, depressing movie that people felt we had lost a little humor of the books.’ – Wyck Godfrey

‘I always loved movies. I wanted to be in them! I always saw them and said, ‘How do you do that?’ It seemed like going to the moon. It was not a rational thought, but that’s the only thing I wanted to do.’ – Richard Jenkins

‘The only memory I have of playing the saxophone was in a school play. We put on ‘Grease,’ which is still one of my favorite movies. I played Danny, and I slid out on my knees and played a really out-of-tune ‘Blue Moon.” – Ed Skrein

‘There is a mammalian side to all of us; on occasion, it rears its head, snarls, makes a mess, acts the fool, howls at the moon, gives or gets a black eye.’ – Jonathan Miles

‘If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing.’ – Travis Beacham

‘One of the things I like so much about ‘Goodnight Moon’ is the way it leaves room for ambiguity.’ – Celeste Ng

‘I’d love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology.’ – Cornelia Parker

‘We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They were bouncing around a lot. They were really bouncing on their tip toes. Quite fun to do.’ – Alan Bean

‘As I ran along, I remember… saying to myself, ‘You know, this is really the moon. We’re really here… That’s the Earth up there.’ And I said it two or three times to myself.’ – Alan Bean

‘I would say I had zero philosophical thoughts at that time. I was operating on a timed checklist that we’ve been trained to do, to try to maximize every really minute on the moon.’ – Alan Bean

‘I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.’ – Alan Bean

‘I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon.’ – Aneel Bhusri

‘I was inspired by the men who walked on the moon. It really was my inspiration, I think, you know, as a kid of 9 years old – I know I’m dating myself, but – I thought, ‘What a cool job!” – Peggy Whitson

‘Literally, my earliest memory, my earliest vivid memory, is the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Yeah, I was in fourth grade, and I was just so captivated. And I think you’ll find a lot of space scientists of my generation will say the same thing. Apollo was a big event for them.’ – David Grinspoon

‘It was an incredible series, ‘From The Earth To The Moon.’ All of it’s great.’ – Tony Goldwyn

‘I walked on the Moon. What can’t you do?’ – Gene Cernan

‘I’m a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years.’ – Geoffrey Rush

‘I will aim at the moon to reach the highest bounty.’ – Reinhard Bonnke

‘The idea for ‘Midnight Moonlight’ was mostly inspired by the moon herself. Advancing from my previous EP ‘Moon Shoes,’ I felt it necessary to dig a little deeper into who I am and the relationship between my music and the moon.’ – Ravyn Lenae

‘The common thread between ‘Moon Shoes’ and ‘Midnight Moonlight’ would definitely be their connection to the moon. However, I feel they both capture a very different quality of the moon. Perhaps ‘Moon Shoes’ epitomizes the moon during the summer, while ‘Midnight Moonlight’ the winter.’ – Ravyn Lenae

‘I describe my projects using colors because it’s the best way to describe ’em. I would say that ‘Moon Shoes’ was way more colorful than a lot of my other music, just because I was pulling from so many different places. Imagine learning how to talk for the first time, and you’re just saying everything.’ – Ravyn Lenae

‘While creating Moon Shoes, I had no idea that I was doing it. The experience was extremely organic, considering that I was making music spontaneously and working alongside friends. I chose to title the project ‘Moon Shoes’ to give listeners a sense of unearthly freedom. I believe each song moves listeners closer to the moon and personal truth.’ – Ravyn Lenae

‘To establish human settlements on the Moon, Mars, or in the free-space between, humans will have to again rapidly adapt. Like early pioneers, there will be no nearby friendly merchants or supportive governments to replace that broken tool.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘If governments decide to return to the Moon – as seems to be the case – it must be to build villages, not bases, and to do it as rapidly as possible, as it needs to be an immediate challenge, not a distant dream. And if some want to go to Mars or mine asteroids, they need to be seen as part of a new frontier community.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘China, Russia and India are shooting for the Moon. United Arab Emirates says Mars. Other private citizens and companies are heading either to Mars, asteroids, or the Moon.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why – to produce a photo-op that would clearly show America would be the winner in the decades-long battle of political systems called the Cold War.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘The first credible humans-to-Mars plans are starting to weave together in public-private partnerships. In fact, I can say with some authority that this will also be the case in terms of the Moon and asteroids as well.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour, and spend far too much time trashing the other guy’s ideas in favor of our own.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘I want the government to focus on the stuff we cannot yet do, like beginning to learn how we can live in space long enough to go to Mars or how to build and operate human communities on the Moon and Mars.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘It is time to kickstart a new U.S. space transportation industry and time to spread that industry into space itself, leveraging our space station legacy to ignite imaginations and entrepreneurship so that we can move farther out, back to the Moon, out to the asteroids, and on to Mars.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘It is time to declare that the goal of the United States in space is the settlement of the solar system, from low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘We need to open the frontier between the Earth and Moon to large-scale human activities, we need to establish human outposts and communities off the Earth and begin the job of doing so right away – and do so largely based on letting the people take over most of the jobs.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘My favorite era was the ’60s because it was filled with incredible creative newness, from panty hose to landing on the moon to Twiggy and Andy Warhol – I loved them, and they loved to wear my silver clothes.’ – Betsey Johnson

‘I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon. Outside the gravitational field of Earth, we could launch robotic spacecraft to other destinations in our solar system.’ – Debra Fischer

‘I’m happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I’d take a jet flight to the moon.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘I had grown up preparing for the Days of Abomination, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood.’ – Tara Westover

‘As far as Europa goes, Europa very likely has an ocean under its surface. In that regard, Europa and Enceladus are on equal par. But on Europa, the ocean is at least several kilometers under the surface, and the moon is bathed in an intense radiation field.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘Voyager’s passage through Saturn’s inner system exposed diverse moons with dynamic forces at work. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, whose surface remained invisible through its thick, ubiquitous haze, nonetheless teased observers with hints of a possible ocean of liquid hydrocarbons.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘The ’60s were a remarkable time because several things were happening at once. Men were leaving planet Earth, kids were breaking into the television age, and I was able to see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘You don’t have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don’t have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.’ – Kerli

‘Being a Moon Child is about believing in integrity, love, and unity.’ – Kerli

‘I know that my energy falls and rises with the phases of the moon. I rest in the winter. I wake up at my own pace, and I blossom in the summer. Life is supposed to be a natural process.’ – Kerli

‘My favourite piece of music is actually ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ as a whole. For me, it’s the most perfect and brilliant example of rock song writing.’ – John Gourley

‘I’d love to jump in a spaceship and shoot myself to the moon, where I’ll paint the word ‘Love.’ So when people step outside before they go to bed and look up to see it, they’ll just dream of love.’ – Luke James

”Footprints On The Moon’ plans to inspire and incite positive and catalytic change.’ – Raheem DeVaughn

‘I got to meet Keith Moon!’ – Rick Nielsen

‘Playing in Japan for thousands of people was like playing on the moon.’ – Rick Nielsen

‘What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore.’ – Yusaku Maezawa

‘Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon. It’s always there and continues to inspire humanity.’ – Yusaku Maezawa

‘I choose to go to the Moon with artists. In 2023, as the host, I would like to invite 6 to 8 artists from around the world to join me on this mission to the Moon.’ – Yusaku Maezawa

‘I don’t like being alone, so I want to share these experiences and things with as many people as possible, so that is why I choose to go to the Moon with artists!’ – Yusaku Maezawa

‘I like new experiences, so I want to promote the same among my colleagues, and this is why I decided to go on this adventure, because I believe going to the Moon will help me create something better.’ – Yusaku Maezawa

‘I’ve never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink Floyd records, I was really into them, especially ‘Dark Side of the Moon.” – Lee Ranaldo

‘Our great nation put a man on the moon, but it can’t train its cops to distinguish between an ordinary brown-skinned brother and a criminal.’ – Jeffrey Wright

”Goodnight Moon’ is a staple of any nursery bookshelf. So, too, are ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ and ‘Madeline.’ These books are just as much a part of mainstream reading culture as ‘The Catcher in the Rye,’ and they are passed down from generation to generation.’ – Rebecca Serle

”The Choirboys’ is very much a product of its mid-1970s time, especially in its two-dimensional portrayals of cop groupies Ora Lee and Carolina Moon, but the energy of Wambaugh’s newfound, blackly comedic voice is a revelation, a trap-door opening into all facets of a policeman’s world.’ – Sarah Weinman

‘Expectations don’t scare me because I have worked towards them. I want people to expect better things from me with every film. I never want to be in a position where they don’t expect anything from me. I want to be in a position where if they are expecting sun from me, at least I will be able to reach the moon.’ – Vicky Kaushal

‘I think ‘Paper Moon’ is a comedy-drama. ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ was the most severe comedy, but my favorite film of my own is ‘They All Laughed,’ which is a kind of bittersweet comedy.’ – Peter Bogdanovich

‘It’s that great feeling, like the first man on the moon, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. And now, I’m the first to deadlift half a ton. It’s history, and I’m very proud to be a part of it.’ – Eddie Hall

‘I had read Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Namesake’ and thought it would make a fabulous film, as I could identify with the central character. When Mira Nair announced the film, I wanted to do the role. When it fell into my lap, I was over the moon.’ – Tabu

‘I’m in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I’m in tune with the jinns that are all around us.’ – Ghostface Killah

‘Once in a blue moon, an entire industry is a good short.’ – Steve Eisman

‘Here’s a thing that’s going to drive me absolutely crazy: the trucks! They can put people on the moon, but they can’t make a quiet truck!’ – Ad-Rock

‘I sing ‘Blue Moon of Kentucky.’ It’s a country song. It’s one of my favorites to sing.’ – Darci Lynne Farmer

‘Some of my heroes are John Bonham, Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Ringo Starr, Terry Bozzio, Bill Bruford… The list goes on and on and on.’ – Mike Portnoy

‘I cannot digest too much junk food. I just have it once in a blue moon.’ – Manisha Koirala

‘I was eight years old when I saw the Apollo moon landing in 1969. I was riveted.’ – Leroy Chiao

‘Donald Trump’s administration is floating a proposal to return to the moon – and to shut down the International Space Station to help pay for it. The first part of this idea is good. The second is horrible.’ – Leroy Chiao

‘I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface, getting ready to go out and actually walk. That settled it for me: I knew I was going to at least try to become an astronaut. I wanted to be like those guys.’ – Leroy Chiao

‘Our conviction that green cheese makes up a negligible fraction of the Moon’s interior comes not from direct observation but from the gross incompatibility of that idea with other things we think we know.’ – Sean M. Carroll

‘Keith Moon was amazing as a drummer, but he was also a nut, and it reflected in his drumming. And the great thing about Who records is that you can almost get hold of the vinyl and feel his heart.’ – Joey Jordison

‘As far as, like, the moon landing… did we go there? I believe so. Is it everything that we’re told? I don’t think so.’ – Matt Skiba

‘I’m really into space. When I was four years old, I used to pray to the stars and look at the moon.’ – Mya

‘There is still some gravity where we are and even as far out as our moon. That is why our moon stays in orbit around the Earth. We don’t feel the gravity up here because it is so much smaller than the force we feel when we are on the Earth.’ – Sunita Williams

‘I think after orbiting for a while and looking at the surface, I think the natural tendency is to want to experience it, to go down there and touch it. I started thinking about the Apollo astronauts who orbited the moon and didn’t land – that must have been agonizing!’ – Sunita Williams

‘I’m 9, 10, and I’m watching the Apollo astronauts go to the moon. We’re sitting on the floor of a school, and they have this… huge TV, and I’m looking at that, and I’m thinking ‘Me, I would like to do that.’ But it didn’t dawn on me then that they were American; I was Canadian. They were men; I was a girl. They were test pilots, military folks.’ – Julie Payette

‘A space nerd as a kid, I learned early that putting a man on the moon took American unity, grit, determination, teamwork, hardship, innovation, sacrifice and patriotism.’ – Katie Pavlich

‘When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time and said the famous words, ‘That’s one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind,’ he was talking about all of us. Men and women.’ – Katie Pavlich

‘Three decades ago, in a top story of the century, Americans placed six flags on the Moon. Today we no longer try for new and bold space achievements; instead, we celebrate the anniversaries of the past.’ – Gene Kranz

‘One of my favorite movies is ‘Paper Moon.” – Millicent Simmonds

‘The Hollywood of Frank Capra’s era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism in many ways as defining as the moon landing or the A-bomb.’ – Joy Reid

‘Sailor Moon’ was the first time I could say I was a super-duper-fan of something. I remember watching before school, at like 6 A.M. along with ‘Dragonball Z’ or ‘Beast Wars,’ depending on the months.’ – Zoe Quinn

‘Putting a man on the moon united our nation in victory and we’ve collectively mourned through tragedies such as Apollo 1, the Challenger and Columbia.’ – Will Hurd

‘I wanna buy vinyl and I want to listen to records on it. I want to put on ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ in the dining room while I’m eating pasta or whatever. You know what I mean.’ – Jim Root

‘There were so many weird shows when we were younger. ‘Clangers.’ ‘Button Moon.’ ‘The Moomins.’ All very weird, but very cool too.’ – Kate Nash

‘Once in a blue moon I’ll have some sort of concept song or it will be about a bunch of different things, but yeah, it’s all from experiences.’ – Phoebe Bridgers

‘It’s hard to see your dad once in a blue moon.’ – Michael McIntyre

‘My first record I ever got was ‘Full Moon Fever.’ My dad gave me a copy when I was maybe nine years old or something. And I listened to the heck out of that record. I loved that record.’ – Laura Jane Grace

‘I’m a conspiracy theorist. I can’t help but look at the lunar landing and go, ‘We didn’t go to the moon.’ We never went there. My dad worked for NASA on the Apollo missions, and I’ve always felt it’s been fake since I was a kid.’ – Tim Commerford

‘Clear Moon’ is more… clear I guess! It’s more round-sounding and it’s slightly gentler. ‘Ocean Roar’ is more challenging and weird and darker and heavier – the idea was for it to feel like a thick fog laying on your head, versus a clear sky with the moon in it.’ – Phil Elverum

‘I always thought I had a face like the moon, because I had really chubby cheeks when I was a kid, right up until my mid-20s. My face changed in my later 20s and again in my mid-30s.’ – KT Tunstall

‘It’s very special to be the first winner in New Zealand. Phil Taylor has always said to me about trying to be the first player to win when we go to a new country and I’m over the moon to do that in Auckland.’ – Adrian Lewis

‘I made ‘Desert Moon’ and when I made those solo albums, I was trying not to be Styx, because I thought, ‘That belongs to us.’ So, I made different kinds of solo albums that were not dipping my hand back into the magic Styx jar and pulling out all the tricks – because bands, they have tricks, don’t they? That’s what makes them different.’ – Dennis DeYoung

‘I started taking medication to weaken my immune system because that is what was attacking my kidneys. The problem was when I went on different medication, I suffered side effects. And the side effects caused ‘moon face,’ where my face swelled up. It was a reaction.’ – Fallon Sherrock

‘We live in a country that sent people to the moon. This accomplishment, along with other bold leaps of faith, required political will, determination and imagination. Providing health care for all of our citizens requires the same force of will.’ – Nina Turner

‘My favorite thing to see that I’ve been surprised at is watching the moon rises and moon sets that just move so fast it’s like it jumps off of the horizon and up and over us.’ – Anne McClain

‘The moon landing was such a magnificent accomplishment in U.S. space history. I think that boots on the moon was just one indicator of the rapid technology advancement and really just showed what we can do when all of us are dedicated to a single goal over a long period of time.’ – Anne McClain

‘Fifty years after humans landed on the moon for the first time, America has driven a golden spike on the trail to new space exploration feats through the work of our commercial partner SpaceX and all of the dedicated and talented flight controllers at NASA and our international partners.’ – Anne McClain

‘I have always been a fan of the Guillemots. Fyfe Dangerfield, the lead singer, has recently produced a debut solo album called ‘Fly Yellow Moon’; he has the most amazing voice ever.’ – Amy Macdonald

‘We could perform in space or be the first band to play moon, but we want to be the first ‘Star Wars’ band.’ – Olly Alexander

‘Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching ‘The Wall’ and, you know, ‘Money’ and ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’ which are fantastic records, of course.’ – Cedric Bixler-Zavala

‘Whether it’s space tourism or really interesting missions to the moon or Mars, you really need a healthy capital ecosystem to make that happen. Nation states and governments have the control, but unless the financing is sustainable, it’s hard to really keep them on that.’ – Dylan Taylor

‘Think Oman, and you think desert. But what we found was mile after mile of barren, spiky rubble, cliffs of jutting sharp rocks, unrelieved by a single piece of vegetation or water. We drove for hours across what felt like the surface of the moon. We saw goats foraging but couldn’t work out what they could possibly be eating.’ – Fiona Bruce

‘Because of its gradient, it is the site of many spectacular waterfalls, like the Unchalli Falls, near which, on a full moon night in winter, you might even glimpse a moonbow – a rainbow generated from the moonlight. This is the river Aghanashini – ‘the cleanser of sins.” – Rohini Nilekani

‘Somebody else can be the first man on the moon. It doesn’t interest me at all.’ – William Hartnell

‘I’m over the moon to be joining the cast of ‘Holby’ and am enjoying bringing the character of Sahira Shah to life.’ – Laila Rouass

‘How can you say that Neil Armstrong went up to the moon in a little spaceship just for the craic but another planet can’t send someone here?’ – Scarlett Moffatt

‘This is what confuses me. People say, ‘I believe that we landed on the Moon’ but then they find it really far fetched that there can’t be other planets where little men haven’t travelled to ours.’ – Scarlett Moffatt

‘Apparently, we’ve been to the moon in 1969, 1970. We’ve been there six times, I don’t believe a word of it. Some people do.’ – Carl Froch

‘I’m really fascinated by the moon.’ – Cree Summer

‘I can play many roles, a guy who takes on a challenge on very short notice with potentially damaging results, if I make the wrong move… I shoot for the stars. If I get the moon, I’m OK with that.’ – Michael Sorrentino

‘As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like ‘Charade,’ ‘Moon River,’ ‘Wine and Roses,’ ‘Dear Heart’ – they were all just themes that grew out of the picture.’ – Henry Mancini

‘We are creatures of the earth and live on this planet through the powers of the sun and moon and through all facets of nature so I want our odyssey to the ‘Metal Galaxy’ to be one that we constantly appreciate how much we are able to travel the world through the power of music.’ – Moa Kikuchi

‘I’m still blown away by how desolate Iceland can be, how deserted it is. It’s very often like living on the moon.’ – Olafur Darri Olafsson

‘The ‘Bachelor’ producers have scripted and are responsible for certain events: the first moon landing, the end of the cold war, Astro-turf, and the Internet (sorry, Al Gore, it was us). But we are not responsible for, nor have we ever scripted, the ending of this show.’ – Chris Harrison

‘I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.’ – Lawrence O’Donnell

‘I am a Puerto Rican. I could have been born on the moon, but I’m still Puerto Rican.’ – Danny Garcia

‘I want America to see me as a combination of the Rev. Sun Moon and a singing star. That’s the image I want them to have.’ – Demis Roussos

‘I don’t care if people compare me to my grandmother. I can never be like my grandmother. Nor was my grandmother ever like me. People may compare me with her or my mother, Moon Moon. But I am cool about it.’ – Riya Sen

‘It is possible to set your standards too high, which can undermine a man’s confidence and ability to perform. Instead of reaching for the stars and settling for the moon, there is considerable evidence that man is better served reaching for a blade of grass and settling for an under-the-table handshake deal.’ – Jason Whitlock

‘It didn’t matter if we put out ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon,’ we weren’t going to be liked by everyone.’ – James Righton

‘Moon’s’ a good movie.’ – James Righton

‘I’m over the moon to play an iconic character like Ted Hastings and for my career to be defined by this role – that’s a place very few actors get to.’ – Adrian Dunbar

‘I didn’t have much of a taste for Korean food growing up: I was over the moon about Mexican food.’ – Lee Isaac Chung

‘Well, I was quite young when we first walked on the moon; I had just turned four, but I did watch it on TV. I think that just set the seed right then that that would be a really interesting thing to do.’ – Shannon Walker

‘NASA needs to decide, along with Congress, what our destination is going to be, whether it’s going to be the moon, an asteroid or on to Mars. And we’re building a heavy-lift vehicle to get us there and building the capsules that’s going to be needed to carry the crew.’ – Shannon Walker

‘I would love to fly to the Moon or Mars.’ – Shannon Walker

‘At a young age, I became interested in space and science after watching the U.S. land on the moon for the first time.’ – Shannon Walker

‘Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent. But perhaps tomorrow we’ll wake up and find an alien spaceship the size of the Moon parked in orbit.’ – Liu Cixin

‘I’m fortunate to have viewed our Earth from the moon and that vision has convinced me that technology and commitment will conquer any challenge.’ – Jack Swigert

‘I do hope to make a moon flight sometime.’ – Jack Swigert

‘You can look up, you can see the stars, the moon and the sun, and you wonder: How does it all work? I didn’t have the answers, but I was thinking about all this floating amongst the stars. That is my objective.’ – Wally Funk

‘My father would talk to me about the moon, and to me it was mysterious and poetic, like a large, beautiful, honey-colored pearl.’ – Judith Love Cohen

‘Michael was more excited than I was. He was over the moon about having a kid.’ – Nicole Johnson

‘I was over the moon after bowling Chris Lewis and I was a little nervous about the hat-trick. You know it is a dream come true for any player to perform in the finals of a world cup.’ – Wasim Akram

‘I truly want us to live in a world 50 or 100 years from now where people are jumping in their rockets like the Jetsons and there are families bouncing around on the moon with their kid in a spacesuit.’ – Jared Isaacman

‘We’ve got to go back to the space station and back to the moon and Mars and beyond, because there is a lot of space out there and we know so little about it.’ – Jared Isaacman

‘To me, fighting in Strikeforce was a dream, like saying ‘I want to be an astronaut and go to the moon.’ You don’t think that it’s actually is going to happen, you just wish it.’ – Liz Carmouche

‘What greater thing can you do than walk on the moon?’ – Martin Kemp

‘You have to be able to reach for the moon. You have to be able to have those sort of goals.’ – Patty Mills

‘I grew up in Samoa, where food is an important part of our culture. I remember this sea worm, called the palolo, that would lay its larvae once every full moon. You’d go and scoop it up, serve it on a banana leaf with coconut cream and seaweed. Delicious, a real assault on the senses.’ – Monica Galetti

‘I like The Beatles a lot so Ringo is one of my favourites, along with Keith Moon and John Bonham.’ – Marky Ramone

‘Asteroids have been hitting the moon for a long time, especially on the back side.’ – Robert Bigelow

‘No one ‘anything’ should own the moon. But, yes, multiple entities, groups, individuals, yes, they should have the opportunity to own the moon.’ – Robert Bigelow

‘The big worry is America is asleep and does nothing, while China comes along, lands people on the Moon, and decides, ‘We might as well start surveying and laying claim, because who is going to stop us?” – Robert Bigelow

‘The moon is a very valuable asset for a lot of reasons.’ – Robert Bigelow

‘Exploiting the moon, sooner or later, is going to happen: It is the perfect platform from which to jump to the rest of the solar system.’ – Robert Bigelow

‘The moon has a noncontaminating fuel, 20 million metric tons of helium-3, and the Earth has almost none.’ – Robert Bigelow

‘My dad, my mum and my sister were there and were over the moon to see me finally playing for Middlesbrough.’ – Jonathan Woodgate

‘You are busy traveling during the season and it doesn’t slow down in the off-season with autograph shows and football camps and Dan Marino’s golf tournament and Warren Moon’s golf tournament and everybody else’s charity events. Then you have your family calling you, asking when you are going to come home and spend some time with them.’ – Randall Cunningham

‘There is more technology in an iPhone 5 than the first Apollo spacecraft that went to the moon. That’s mind-boggling. The technology in housebuilding by comparison is really slow.’ – George Clarke

‘Thank you Michael Jackson for teaching us about ‘Swagger’ before the term was even made popular. I would personally like to say, thank you for being the reason why music felt organic and for truly being the first man to ‘walk on the moon’ on earth!” – Al B. Sure

‘I’ve had more phases than the moon. When I was into dogs in second grade, I got a vest embroidered with dog breeds at a convention at the Cow Palace near San Francisco.’ – Chloe Fineman

‘My father, Harold, loved music. The radio was on all the time at home, and he had lots of great pop and light classical 78s. Karen and I especially loved Les Paul and Mary Ford, and their overdubbed vocals on songs like ‘How High the Moon’ and ‘The World is Waiting for the Sunrise.” – Richard Carpenter

‘I would suffer with something they call moon face. You’re slim all over but your face becomes very bloated.’ – Darren Fletcher