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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. -- Elias Canetti
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. -- Alan Watts
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. -- Hal Borland
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. -- William Gibson
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land. -- Kit Williams
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. -- Jack Gilbert
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations. -- John Green
Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations. -- Pablo Neruda
Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928]. -- Walter Benjamin
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them -- Marilyn vos Savant
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. -- Carl Sagan
You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids. -- Tim Ferriss
Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation -- Pharrell Williams
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars. -- Benjamin Franklin
Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul. -- Truth Devour
Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God. -- Mary Baker Eddy
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. -- Amy Tan
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them. -- Walt Whitman
Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations. -- Marcus Garvey
Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing. -- Nicholas Sparks
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell. -- Rebecca Solnit
Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for. -- Mark Twain
From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations. -- Charles Darwin
[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. -- Anais Nin
Identity is an assemblage of constellations. -- Anna Deavere Smith
She would give them order. She would create constellations. -- Thomas Pynchon
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them. -- Marilyn vos Savant
You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids. -- Tim Ferriss
In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations. -- Louis MacNeice
The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius. -- Seth Shostak
I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations. -- Nancy Roman
It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora. -- Nancy Roman
The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels. -- Cesare Borgia
My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations. -- John Green
There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid. -- Lauren Aquilina
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. -- Chet Raymo
He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever -- Jodi Picoult
Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law. -- Carl Sandburg
We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky. -- Diane Ackerman
You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together. -- Kate DiCamillo
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation. -- Horace Mann
In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way. -- Martin Schulz
A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. -- Jeremy Taylor
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display. -- Nadeem Aslam
Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations. -- Thornton Wilder
Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations. -- John Green
Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day? -- Thomas Carlyle
The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations. -- Emmanuel Mounier
We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies. -- Paulo Coelho
In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men (and women) of flesh and blood. -- Richard M. Nixon
New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light. -- Melissa Febos
Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more? -- David Hewson

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